Re: sparc boot failure due to perf init

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jan 07 2011 - 15:31:24 EST


On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:27:35PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 21:23 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 21:18 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > This was introduced by:
> > > "perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detector" - 004417a6d468e24399e383645c068b498eed84ad
> > >
> > > I did not see any obvious fix.
> > > (To avoid it is simple - I can disable it in my config).
> >
> > Or you can switch back to arch_initcall() for now, it'll cause the
> > generic watchdog stuff not to work, but that's a lot less important.
> >
> > I'll have a chat with Dave on how to best sort all this.
>
> That is, simply revert the sparc bit for now.

For now I just disabled the option as I am trying to
debug a console related problem and do not need the
perf_event support (or at least I do not know I need it :-) ).

Then you guys can sort it out and I can test any patches
you come up with.

Sam

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