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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:10:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140110201020.GK7572@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D04BE6.9050907@hp.com>

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 02:37:10PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> >@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> >
> >  	/* Are we prepared to handle this kernel fault? */
> >  	if (fixup_exception(regs)) {
> >-		if (current_thread_info()->sig_on_uaccess_error&&  signal) {
> >+		if (!in_nmi()&&  current_thread_info()->sig_on_uaccess_error&&  signal) {
> >  			tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_PF;
> >  			tsk->thread.error_code = error_code | PF_USER;
> >  			tsk->thread.cr2 = address;
> 
> Yes, this change fixed the error that I got. I no longer see SIGSEGV when I
> run the test.

Awesome, just send a more elaborate version that should have the same
effect.

> I did tried to back out your "perf: Fix arch_perf_out_copy_user default"
> patch, but it didn't fix the problem.

The culprit was: e00b12e64be9 ("perf/x86: Further optimize
copy_from_user_nmi()")



      reply	other threads:[~2014-01-10 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-10 15:29 Waiman Long
2014-01-10 16:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 17:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 17:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 18:54       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 19:43         ` Waiman Long
2014-01-10 19:56           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 20:12             ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 20:06         ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-10 20:28           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-15 15:33           ` Waiman Long
2014-01-16 13:39           ` [tip:perf/core] x86, mm, perf: Allow recursive faults from interrupts tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-17 18:10             ` Waiman Long
2014-01-17 19:17               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-17 20:08                 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-17 21:07                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-10 19:37     ` SIGSEGV when using "perf record -g" with 3.13-rc* kernel Waiman Long
2014-01-10 20:10       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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