When doing the generic context switch event I ran into some early boot hangs, which were caused by inf func recursion (event, fault, event, fault). I eventually tracked it down to event_list not being initialized at the time of the first event. Fix this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/init_task.h | 2 ++ kernel/perf_counter.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ static void perf_swcounter_ctx_event(str { struct perf_counter *counter; - if (list_empty(&ctx->event_list)) + if (system_state != SYSTEM_RUNNING || list_empty(&ctx->event_list)) return; rcu_read_lock(); Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/init_task.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/init_task.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ extern struct cred init_cred; # define INIT_PERF_COUNTERS(tsk) \ .perf_counter_ctx.counter_list = \ LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.counter_list), \ + .perf_counter_ctx.event_list = \ + LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.event_list), \ .perf_counter_ctx.lock = \ __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.perf_counter_ctx.lock), #else -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/