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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Fix seg fault with Intel PT
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 11:30:14 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160126143014.GD4361@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A77C18.60407@intel.com>

Em Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 04:00:56PM +0200, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
> On 26/01/16 15:54, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > [acme@ssdandy linux]$ 

> > So, this needs:

> > 1) A machine that supports Intel PT
> > 2) A kernel that supports Intel PT
> > 3) A kernel that doesn't have perf_event_attr.context_switch, so that it tries
> >    to use sched:sched_switch
> > 4) an unreadable tracefs

> > What was the kernel where you stumbled on this problem? What machine?
 
> Kernel was v4.2, machine was Broadwell.
 
> context_switch was added in v4.3 I think, and PT was v4.1
> so I guess v4.1 and v4.2 are affected.

Thanks for the info, my new main machine is a t450s, so Broadwell, will
boot with 4.1/4.2.

- Arnaldo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-26 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 12:05 [PATCH 0/2] perf tools: Fix seg fault with Intel PT Adrian Hunter
2016-01-26 12:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Adrian Hunter
2016-01-26 13:23   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-26 13:34     ` Adrian Hunter
2016-01-26 13:54       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2016-01-26 14:00         ` Adrian Hunter
2016-01-26 14:30           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2016-02-04  7:57   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools: tracepoint_error() can receive e= NULL, robustify it tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2016-01-26 12:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Fix another seg fault using Intel PT Adrian Hunter

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