From: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>, Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>,
Akinobu Mita <amgta@yacht.ocn.ne.jp>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [mm patch] oprofile: backtrace operation does not initialized
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:50:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209015024.GG4239@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041209014622.GB48804@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:46:22AM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:39:06AM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
>
> > But for now I don't see any drama with leaving in the ->setup() and
> > ->shutdown() methods when rewriting the ops structure. Ditto for
> > the ->create_files() methods.
>
> Wouldn't this mean that we try to set up the NMI stuff regardless of
> forcing the timer ? I can imagine a flaky system where somebody needs to
> avoid going near that stuff.
>
> timer_init() making sure to set all fields seems reasonable to me. Or
> oprofile_init() could grab ->backtrace, memset the structure, then
> replace ->backtrace...
Ok, how about this patch?
Greg.
--
Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.
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Allow stack tracing to work when sampling on timer is forced
using the timer=1 boot option. Reported by Akinobu Mita.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
---
oprof.c | 6 ++----
timer_int.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c 2004-12-04 19:43:37.%N +1100
+++ linux/drivers/oprofile/oprof.c 2004-12-09 09:25:02.%N +1100
@@ -155,13 +155,11 @@ static int __init oprofile_init(void)
{
int err = 0;
- /* this is our fallback case */
- oprofile_timer_init(&oprofile_ops);
+ oprofile_arch_init(&oprofile_ops);
if (timer) {
printk(KERN_INFO "oprofile: using timer interrupt.\n");
- } else {
- oprofile_arch_init(&oprofile_ops);
+ oprofile_timer_init(&oprofile_ops);
}
err = oprofilefs_register();
Index: linux/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c 2004-12-04 19:43:37.%N +1100
+++ linux/drivers/oprofile/timer_int.c 2004-12-09 12:48:52.%N +1100
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ static void timer_stop(void)
void __init oprofile_timer_init(struct oprofile_operations * ops)
{
+ ops->create_files = NULL;
+ ops->setup = NULL;
+ ops->shutdown = NULL;
ops->start = timer_start;
ops->stop = timer_stop;
ops->cpu_type = "timer";
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-09 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 9:30 [mm patch] oprofile: backtrace operation does not initialized Akinobu Mita
2004-12-08 9:34 ` Akinobu Mita
2004-12-08 11:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-12-08 11:37 ` Akinobu Mita
2004-12-08 16:00 ` John Levon
2004-12-08 22:31 ` Greg Banks
2004-12-08 23:56 ` Philippe Elie
2004-12-09 0:39 ` Greg Banks
2004-12-09 1:46 ` John Levon
2004-12-09 1:50 ` Greg Banks [this message]
2004-12-09 2:23 ` John Levon
2004-12-09 14:22 ` Akinobu Mita
2004-12-09 14:53 ` Akinobu Mita
2004-12-09 14:55 ` John Levon
2004-12-09 15:27 ` Greg Banks
2004-12-09 15:23 ` Greg Banks
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