linux-kernel - Re: perf/tracepoint yet another lockup

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Date:	Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:24:58 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: perf/tracepoint yet another lockup

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:28:21PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> So are all tracepoints unsafe?  Or just a subset?

No, most should be fine. But finding the special ones seems interesting
:/

Disabling them all for now sure seems like the safe option.
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