Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] perf, bts: Fallout from the fuzzer for perf/urgent

From: Alexander Shishkin
Date: Wed Sep 07 2016 - 14:33:37 EST


Vince Weaver <vince@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
>
>> Sure. And yes, I did catch a warning, which calls for one more patch
>> (below). Also one unrelated thing in PEBS that Peter fixed.
>
> Does that fix this which I just got on my skylake machine (4.8-rc5 with
> your other 5 patches applied)
>
> [ 5351.822559] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 19191 at arch/x86/events/intel/bts.c:344 event_function+0xa1/0x160

Yes, it fixes a problem that triggered this warning. Can't tell from the
absence of backtrace what's going on here, though.

Regards,
--
Alex