Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161835AbWKPFIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:08:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161838AbWKPFIy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:08:54 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:28848 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161835AbWKPFIx (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:08:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:05:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds , discuss@x86-64.org, William Cohen , Eric Dumazet , Komuro , Ernst Herzberg , Andre Noll , oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, Jens Axboe , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, phil.el@wanadoo.fr, Adrian Bunk , Ingo Molnar , Alan Stern , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Stephen Hemminger , Prakash Punnoor , Len Brown , Alex Romosan , gregkh@suse.de, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Eric W. Biederman" , Andrey Borzenkov Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3) Message-Id: <20061115210501.feaf230c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061116032109.GG9579@bingen.suse.de> References: <200611151945.31535.ak@suse.de> <200611152023.53960.ak@suse.de> <20061115122118.14fa2177.akpm@osdl.org> <20061116032109.GG9579@bingen.suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 859 Lines: 28 On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:21:09 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > If it's really true that oprofile is simply busted then that's a serious > > problem and we should find some way of unbusting it. If that means just > > adding a dummy "0" entry which always returns zero or something like that, > > then fine. > > That could be probably done. I'm told that this is exactly what it was doing before it got changed. > > But we can't just go and bust it. > > It just did something unbelievable broken before. What did it do? > I would say it busted > itself. It gave profiles, which was fairly handy. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/