Re: [PATCH] Sometimes, there is OOPS happened when we use oprofile.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Oct 31 2012 - 17:28:04 EST


On 10/31/2012 02:05 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
Jun,

On 29.10.12 02:33:54, Zhang, Jun wrote:
Sometimes, there is OOPS happened when we use oprofile. next
is the call stack. From call stack, we find in
call_on_stack if there is a nmi interrupt between "xchgl
%%ebx,%%esp" and "call *%%edi", system will OOPS.

this should be related and fixed with:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/12/269

Ingo, HPA,

please apply the fix of kernel_stack_pointer().


Thanks for the reminder. Ingo bounced this one to me for review while I was away and it fell between the cracks.

-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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