linux-kernel - Re: Oprofile bug ?

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Date:	Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:18:36 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Sylvain GENEVES <Sylvain.Geneves@...ialpes.fr>
Cc:	"oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net" <oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"robert.richter" <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: Re: Oprofile bug ?

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 22:11 +0100, Sylvain GENEVES wrote:
> Anyone has any idea on what is happening ?

Yeah, the oprofile code is terminally broken, it uses
__copy_from_user_inatomic() from NMI context.


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