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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";

  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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