From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 23:35:50 +0200
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On Friday, July 09, 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:34:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > > Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16284
> > > Subject         : Hitting WARN_ON in hw_breakpoint code
> > > Submitter       : Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > > Date            : 2010-06-23 12:57 (16 days old)
> > > Message-ID      : <20100623125740.GA3368@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
> > > References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127729789113432&w=2
> > 
> > This has "I have a fix, will post it very soon." in the thread from
> > Frederic, but I'm not seeing anything else. Frederic?
> 
> 
> 
> Right. In fact it wasn't a regression. The per task breakpoint reservation
> design was broken from the beginning and this warning has revealed the
> problem. This only touched perf, and it did since perf support breakpoints.
> Fortunately ptrace wasn't concerned by this problem, even not by side effects
> of this.
> 
> The fix is invasive as it's a rewrite of a (little) part of the breakpoint
> reservation. And since the symptom is only a warning and also breakpoints
> never released from the constraint table (just a counter, no memory leak),
> the fix is headed for 2.6.36.
> 
> It is ready in tip:/perf/core:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=45a73372efe4a63f44aa2e1125d4a777c2fdc8d8
> 
> I think this ticket can be safely closed.

OK, closing.

Rafael
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