Re: 3.1: NULL pointer dereference after perf usage

From: Andres Freund
Date: Sun Nov 06 2011 - 08:40:52 EST


Hi,

On Sunday, November 06, 2011 10:12:29 AM Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 03:58:59AM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> > Somewhere in the 3.1 cycle - haven't yet bisected - I started to get
> > somewhat reprodcable crashes after using perf.
> > There is no direct correlation with a concrete action via perf I can
> > see so far but without having used perf the system runs stable.
>
> Can you try those patches please?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/23/163
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/18/390
After applying those the system runs smoothly - while using perf obviously -
for over an hour.

Thanks,

Andres
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