Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Fall back to vmalloc for BTS buffer allocation

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Sep 10 2014 - 10:40:23 EST


> We did this once, and that blew up big time.
>
> Even now, vmalloc_fault() has a very explicit:
>
> WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());
>
> So this isn't going to happen until you fix that.

Good point.

We just need to call vmalloc_sync_all at allocation time,
no need to change vmalloc_fault.

-Andi



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