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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: perf/ftrace lockup on 3.12-rc6 with trigger code
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:19:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131025101943.GA3481@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382695687.12254.4.camel@pippen.local.home>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> > Urgh, I had turned those on to try to debug something and forgot 
> > to disable.  I feel like I saw this problem before I had those 
> > enabled so I guess I have to start from scratch fuzzing to see 
> > if I can get a more generally reproducible trace.

Btw., even if various config options are enabled, we don't want the 
kernel to lock up. So it might not be _the_ bug you are looking, but 
it certainly looks like _a_ bug.

> Looks like something is incorrectly enabling function tracer 
> within perf. Peter told me that there's some ref count bug that 
> may use data after being freed on exit.
> 
> I tried the program that you attached in you previous email, and 
> was not able to hit the bug. Are you able to hit the bug with that 
> code each time?

A full .config and a SHA1 of the tested tree would definitely be 
nice!

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 17:30 perf/ftrace lockup on 3.12-rc6 with trigger code Vince Weaver
2013-10-24 18:25 ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-25 10:08   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-10-25 10:19     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-25 13:17       ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-25 13:12     ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-25 21:36       ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-26  8:48         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-05 18:06           ` Vince Weaver

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