Re: [PATCH v5 07/20] perf: Add api for pmus to write to AUX area

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 22 2014 - 10:02:26 EST


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 04:45:35PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> + /*
> + * Nesting is not supported for AUX area, make sure nested
> + * writers are caught early
> + */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(local_xchg(&rb->aux_nest, 1)))
> + goto err_put;

Note that printk() from NMI is prone to making your machine die, not
that I have a better option though.
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