Re: sparc boot failure due to perf init

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Jan 07 2011 - 21:23:23 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:23:52 +0100

> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 21:18 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> This was introduced by:
>> "perf, arch: Cleanup perf-pmu init vs lockup-detector" - 004417a6d468e24399e383645c068b498eed84ad
>>
>> I did not see any obvious fix.
>> (To avoid it is simple - I can disable it in my config).
>
> Or you can switch back to arch_initcall() for now, it'll cause the
> generic watchdog stuff not to work, but that's a lot less important.
>
> I'll have a chat with Dave on how to best sort all this.

I'll take a look at this.

Thanks for bisecting this down Sam, I was seeing the same problem
on my machines and was about to debug it myself.
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