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perf, x86: Stop Intel PT before kdump starts

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This patch stops Intel PT logging and saves its registers in memory
before kdump is started. This feature is needed to prevent Intel PT from
overwriting its log buffer after panic, and saved registers are needed to
find the last position where Intel PT wrote data.

After the crash dump is captured by kdump, users can retrieve the log buffer
from the vmcore and use it to investigate bad kernel behavior.

Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin<alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: H.Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446614553-6072-3-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Takao Indoh 2015-11-04 14:22:33 +09:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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