Re: [BUG] CPU hotplug: system hang on CPU hot remove during oprofile

[Russell King]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:53:30PM +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote:
> I found a bug on CPU hotplug. If oprofile is running, CPU hot remove causes
> system hang. I only confirm that this problem occurs on my ia64 box. I'm glad
> if someone report about other arch.

oprofile is not CPU hotplug safe.  (It should probably be made so,
but I think that would require a redesign, or at least a rewrite of
the backends.)

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Russell King
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