linux-kernel - Re: oprofile BUG() in current kernel.

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Message-Id: <1210689518.3724.4.camel@dao.KWGR614>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 15:38:38 +0100
From:	Gianni Tedesco <gxt@...nott.ac.uk>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	arges@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...ibm.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oprofile-list@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: oprofile BUG() in current kernel.

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:16 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> It fixes the bug here for me.
> 
> Did you rebuild your modules and "make modules_install" them ?
> 
> Please make sure oprofile.ko only includes .data.percpu
> 
> # size -A 
> /lib/modules/2.6.26-rc2-00051-gc714a53-dirty/kernel/arch/x86/oprofile/oprofile.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.26-rc2-00051-gc714a53-dirty/kernel/arch/x86/oprofile/oprofile.ko  
> :
> section                      size   addr
[snip]
> .data                        1328      0
> .data.percpu                  124      0
> .gnu.linkonce.this_module    4480      0
> .bss                          372      0
> .comment                      288      0
> .note.GNU-stack                 0      0
> Total                       19997

Oops, how embarrassing. I applied the patch manually and missed out the
first chunk. Disregard previous post. This fixes the problem for me.

Good work one and all :)

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