Re: 2.6.9-rc3-mm3

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>]

On 2004.10.07, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Nick Sanders <sandersn@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >> I get the following oops when booting and it also stops kde
> >> (artswrapper) from starting with the same call trace. USB seems to
> >> be working which is good.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:50:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Could you please do
> > cd /usr/src/linux
> > wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc3/2.6.9-rc3-mm3/broken-out/optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch
> > patch -R -p1 < optimize-profile-path-slightly.patch
> > and retest?
...
> 
> Here is a more likely correct patch for what that was trying to do,
> however misguided that may be. Untested, uncompiled, vs. 2.6.9-rc3-mm3
> without the bad patch:
> 
...
> +static inline void profile_tick(int type, struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> +	extern cpumask_t prof_cpu_mask;
> +

This conflicts with kernel/irq/proc.c:

	unsigned long prof_cpu_mask = -1;

Shouldn't this be:

	cpumask_t prof_cpu_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE;

This will show problems when NR_CPUS > sizeof(long)....

Hope this helps.

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