linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:11:52 +0100
From:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
To:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
CC:	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

On 21.12.08 22:23:05, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> > i am experiencing an issue, similar to the one reported in
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/30/319.
> 
> bisecting showed, that commit b99170288421c79f0c2efa8b33e26e65f4bb7fb8
> (oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support) caused the
> problem. 
> oddly, the newly introduced api is not used, since the model struct is
> set during the ppro_init call ...

Tim,

I just tested rc9 on a system I have available and I could not
reproduce this.

cpu family	: 6
model		: 15
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz
stepping	: 2

Does fix 7c64ade53a6f977d73f16243865c42ceae999aea work on your system?

-Robert

-- 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@....com

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/