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Subject: Re: Oprofile bug ?
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sylvain GENEVES <Sylvain.Geneves@inrialpes.fr>
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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.