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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>, Su Tao <tao.su@intel.com>,
	Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@intel.com>, LKP <lkp@01.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [perf] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000085
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:17:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141007081732.GF19379@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141007050348.GB17972@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 01:03:48PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > What is lacking is the actual .config.
> 
> Sorry, attached the .config. I expected the script to auto attach it,
> but obviously it's not yet perfect and failed to attach .config in
> this case.

Sure no problem, just figured I'd tell you.

> > Also the times above (~285 seconds) seem to suggest userspace needs to
> > do something ?
> 
> It's trinity. I'll try upgrade it, but it seems be valid for trinity
> to feed kernel with any parameters that it can accept -- unless the
> kernel completely rejects it one day.

OK, does it make sense to augment that script you have with a trinity
parameter? Maybe have that userspace read the kernel cmdline and also
run trinity when observed?

That way you can provide full reproduction environments, which it
appears you're striving towards.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-04 13:46 [perf] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000085 Fengguang Wu
2014-10-04 17:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-10-07  4:56   ` Fengguang Wu
2014-10-07  5:03   ` Fengguang Wu
2014-10-07  8:17     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-10-07  8:40       ` Fengguang Wu

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