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SubjectRe: [BUG] perf and kmemcheck : fatal combination
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On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 18:08 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> Just got a panic on a kmemcheck kernel, latest linux-2.6 tree.
>
> I forgot I had kmemcheck enabled, and started "perf top" just because my
> machine was damn slow... Oh well...
>
> Crash in do_nmi -> nmi_enter() -> BUG_ON(in_nmi());

Hmm,. I bet because kmemcheck triggers faults from nmi context because
it messes about with the page protection bits a lot to track things.

Can't really think of anything except not making perf available on
kmemcheck kernels.

---
init/Kconfig | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 32745bf..94735b4 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1125,6 +1125,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
bool "Kernel performance events and counters"
default y if (PROFILING || PERF_COUNTERS)
depends on HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
+ depends on !KMEMCHECK
select ANON_INODES
select IRQ_WORK
help


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