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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@kernel.org,
	eranian@google.com, jolsa@redhat.com,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] variuos perf fixes
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:57:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150914065748.GL18489@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1509131904590.23554@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu>

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 07:10:56PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Vince reported some fail here:
> > 
> >   lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1509021227380.32729@vincent-weaver-1.umelst.maine.edu
> > 
> > These patches are the result of me trying to fix it.
> > 
> > Compile tested only, I'll try them after a sleep..
> 
> Sorry for the delay testing, your e-mails continue being sent to SPAM by 
> gmail for some reason.
> 
> I patched up a 4.3-rc1 system with the patches, and pretty much my 
> *entire* perf_event test suite causes kernel oopses.
> 
> This is on an AMD a10 system.
> 
> [ 1564.442224] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000001e8

Yeah, I really should just not set out patches when I'm that tired.

What's worse, I already fixed this splat once, but forgot to copy it
over to the right machine etc..

Total fail.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-14  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-10 16:16 [RFC][PATCH 0/3] variuos perf fixes Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-10 16:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/3] perf: Restructure perf syscall point of no return Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-10 16:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/3] perf: Fix u16 overflows Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-12  8:11   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-14  9:06     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-14  9:31       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-10 16:16 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/3] perf: Fix races in computing the header sizes Peter Zijlstra
2015-09-13 23:10 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/3] variuos perf fixes Vince Weaver
2015-09-14  6:57   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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