On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote: > If there's no progress finding the root cause I'd be happy to exchange a > crash for > a leak ...
It's actually a crash of the program doing the perf_event_open() call, not a crash of the system (at least in my experience). However, it's possible that if you have bad luck and if the kfree'd space is reused with just the right combination of values you could potentially end up crashing the system. Vince
