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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix perfctr oops on ppc32
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:29:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249133370.24204.3.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)

This seems to be the reason why the Fedora rawhide 2.6.31-rc kernel
doesn't boot. With some CPUs, cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type can be
NULL -- which makes strcmp() unhappy.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
---
At first glance, it looks like there are a bunch of other places which
use cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type without first checking if it's
non-NULL, but maybe those are all 64-bit and all 64-bit cpu types have
it set?

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
index 75ff47f..ea383c1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ struct power_pmu mpc7450_pmu = {
 
 static int init_mpc7450_pmu(void)
 {
-	if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/7450"))
+	if (cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type &&
+	    strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/7450"))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	return register_power_pmu(&mpc7450_pmu);


-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation

             reply	other threads:[~2009-08-01 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01 13:29 David Woodhouse [this message]
2009-08-02  7:54 ` [PATCH] Fix perfctr oops on ppc32 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-05 21:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-05 21:07   ` David Woodhouse

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