An idea came to me that running perf-sched with a fork "bomb" might
reveal some bug.

So I wrote a program (attached), and did the following test:

# gcc fork.c
# ./a.out &
# perf sched record

After a few seconds, the machine froze, without printing any message.

I've tried the test both on v2.6.34-rc1 and v2.6.34-rc1-tip+.

I'll send you any other information you need.