Re: [PATCH] Fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps

2008-05-16 Thread Carl Love
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 11:01 -0700, Carl Love wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:47 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > Carl Love writes: > > > > > The following patch fixes the 64 bit user code backtrace > > > which currently may hang the system. > > > > What exactly is wrong with it? > > > > Ha

Re: [PATCH] Fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps

2008-05-15 Thread Carl Love
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:47 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Carl Love writes: > > > The following patch fixes the 64 bit user code backtrace > > which currently may hang the system. > > What exactly is wrong with it? > > Having now taken a much closer look, I now don't think Nate Case's > pat

Re: [PATCH] Fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Mackerras
Carl Love writes: > The following patch fixes the 64 bit user code backtrace > which currently may hang the system. What exactly is wrong with it? Having now taken a much closer look, I now don't think Nate Case's patch addresses this, since it only affects constant size arguments <= 8 to cop

[PATCH] Fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps

2008-05-07 Thread Carl Love
The following patch fixes the 64 bit user code backtrace which currently may hang the system. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.25.1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/backtrace.c === --- linux-2.6.25.1.orig/arch/p