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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi>,
	Linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22.6 + oprofile oops
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:47:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071001144733.GA5975@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73ejgf6sch.fsf@bingen.suse.de>


* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:

> > 2007-09-22 13:53:32.527330808 <4>[ 3372.390363] Pid: 7, comm: 
> > events/0 Not tainted 2.6.22.6-cfs-v20.5-64-2 #7
             ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Can you reproduce it with a non tainted kernel without any patches 
> like CFS applied?

the kernel is not tainted, as indicated in the log message above.

> The oops happens because oprofile tries to reference a NULL task in 
> its event buffer for a context switch, which might well be a minor 
> merging mistake or similar in the CFS backport.

CFS does not change that aspect of the oprofile code.

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-01 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-22 11:23 2.6.22.6 + oprofile oops Sami Farin
2007-09-29 17:05 ` Sami Farin
2007-10-11 14:36   ` Philippe Elie
2007-10-11 18:09     ` Sami Farin
2007-10-01 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-01 13:22   ` Sami Farin
2007-10-01 14:47   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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