Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL] tracing: Fix compile issue fortrace_sched_wakeup.c

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Oct 21 2010 - 10:47:12 EST



* Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Looks like this code had jump labels enabled. Do you have a dump where they
> > > are not enabled?
> >
> > No. Good find - and the timeline agrees too, these crashes started triggering
> > when i pulled jump labels from you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ingo
>
> indeed. I can re-produce reliably as well on x86...hmmm, I have done stress
> testing where I basically just enable/disable all the tracepoints in a tight loop
> and never saw this...but I mostly have been testing on x86_64.

Dont worry about that too much - there will always be bugs that can only be found in
some special way. Good thing we had the self-tests. (and even those didnt reliably
trigger it for me)

Thanks,

Ingo
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