linux-kernel - Re: Hitting WARN_ON in hw

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:53:09 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"K.Prasad" <prasad@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: Hitting WARN_ON in hw_breakpoint code

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:49:20PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> Indeed. I'm suprised I've never seen this problem before while the
> bug is quite obvious.
> 
> Anyway I'm cooking a fix, thanks for this report!

If you haven't been seeing it on x86, I think I'll look a bit closer.
I would have thought that the perf_event would have a reference to the
context, so the context shouldn't have gone away while the perf_event
still exists.  It may be something we're doing differently on ppc64.

Paul.
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