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From: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@googlemail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"roland@redhat.com" <roland@redhat.com>,
	"eranian@googlemail.com" <eranian@googlemail.com>,
	"oleg@redhat.com" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Villacis, Juan" <juan.villacis@intel.com>,
	"ak@linux.jf.intel.com" <ak@linux.jf.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, bts: use atomic memory allocation
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:59:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1237575591.6387.2.camel@raistlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320185559.GA6224@elte.hu>

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 19:55 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> wrote:
> 

> > The second config boots OK with the additional changes to keep the 
> > GFP_KERNEL and move the ds_request_bts() calls out of the 
> > on_each_cpu() in the hw-branch-tracer.
> > 
> > I don't know yet what exactly causes the crash and if there is a 
> > simpler fix.
> 
> hm, this was an AMD box - so perhaps they dont have a compatible DS 
> implementation?

Hmmm, could be.

In that case, ds_cfg should be zero-initialized and ds_request should
return -EOPNOTSUPP. I'll try to simulate that.

regards,
markus.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-20 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-18 18:27 [patch] x86, bts: use atomic memory allocation Markus Metzger
2009-03-19 16:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20  8:07   ` Metzger, Markus T
2009-03-20  8:37     ` Andi Kleen
2009-03-20 16:23     ` Metzger, Markus T
2009-03-20 18:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-20 18:59       ` Markus Metzger [this message]
2009-03-25  9:07       ` Metzger, Markus T
2009-05-07  9:21 ` [tip:tracing/core] " tip-bot for Markus Metzger

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