* Stephane Eranian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * allocate_msrs() allocates two tables per CPU. One for the > counters, the other for the eventsel registers. But then > nmi_setup() copies the cpu_msrs[0] into cpu_msrs[] of all > other cpus. This operation overrides the cpu_msrs[].counters > and cpu_msrs[].controls pointers for all CPUs but CPU0. > But free_msrs() will free the same tables multiple times. This > causes a kernel dump when you enable certain kernel debugging > features. The fix is to copy the content of the counters and > controls array, not the pointers.
This is fixed in 2.6.22-rc4 in commit 0939c17c7bcf1c838bea4445b80a6966809a438f thanks, -chris _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
