[PATCH 1/5] OProfile update

[John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>]

The five patches here change the following files :

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 ++
 drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c      |   49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/oprofile/cpu_buffer.c       |    6 +---
 drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.h     |    1
 drivers/oprofile/oprof.c            |   25 +++++++++++++-----
 fs/dcookies.c                       |    6 ++++
 6 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

please apply
john


My previous fix was incomplete, we could get the same thing happening
on the init-failure path. Fix that.

diff -Naur -X dontdiff linux-cvs/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c linux-me/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
--- linux-cvs/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c	2003-05-26 03:20:20.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-me/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c	2003-05-26 04:25:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -127,6 +127,14 @@
 };
 
  
+static void end_sync_timer(void)
+{
+	del_timer_sync(&sync_timer);
+	/* timer might have queued work, make sure it's completed. */
+	flush_scheduled_work();
+}
+
+
 int sync_start(void)
 {
 	int err;
@@ -158,7 +166,7 @@
 out2:
 	profile_event_unregister(EXIT_TASK, &exit_task_nb);
 out1:
-	del_timer_sync(&sync_timer);
+	end_sync_timer();
 	goto out;
 }
 
@@ -169,9 +177,7 @@
 	profile_event_unregister(EXIT_TASK, &exit_task_nb);
 	profile_event_unregister(EXIT_MMAP, &exit_mmap_nb);
 	profile_event_unregister(EXEC_UNMAP, &exec_unmap_nb);
-	del_timer_sync(&sync_timer);
-	/* timer might have queued work, make sure it's completed. */
-	flush_scheduled_work();
+	end_sync_timer();
 }