Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:21:09 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 
> > If it's really true that oprofile is simply busted then that's a serious
> > problem and we should find some way of unbusting it.  If that means just
> > adding a dummy "0" entry which always returns zero or something like that,
> > then fine.
> 
> That could be probably done.

I'm told that this is exactly what it was doing before it got changed.

> > But we can't just go and bust it.
> 
> It just did something unbelievable broken before.

What did it do?

> I would say it busted
> itself.

It gave profiles, which was fairly handy.
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