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From: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37 kernel warning in perf_events code
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:57:39 -0800
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> Is it possible for you to test this with 2.6.38-rc4? At least the user
> level tools, just do:

I tried the 2.6.38rc3 perf binary on two machines:

kernel = 2.6.37: The machine hung solid on the first try.
kernel = 2.6.38rc3: I could run it 10 times in a loop and no bad runs.

Looks like this is already fixed in newer kernels.

 -Arun