Re: [MEMO] ftrace suckage++

From: Tim Gardner
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 19:03:32 EST


Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> As johannes pointed out to me the culprit to the e1000e corruption was
> determined to be ftrace related [1]. Well it seems I hit an oops with
> ftrace using iwlagn after a simple load of the module using
> wireless-testing. I'm not sure if john's tree yet has ftrace fixes.
> Both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 8.10 had dynamic ftrace enabled so users on
> these first kernels and using compat-wireless may run into this so
> just putting this out there. I'll can check for this flag in
> compat-wireless for now and bitch/exit if its enabled unless someone
> has a better idea.
>
> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/303390/
>

I disabled it in the 2.6.27 Intrepid Ubuntu kernel prior to release.

rtg
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