Re: [mm patch] oprofile: backtrace operation does not initialized

From: John Levon
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 11:04:11 EST


On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:30:51PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:

> When I forced the oprofile to use timer interrupt with specifying
> "timer=1" module parameter. "oprofile_operations->backtrace" did
> not initialized on i386.
>
> Please apply this patch, or make oprofile initialize the backtrace
> operation in case of using timer interrupt in your preferable way.

I don't like this patch. The arches should just set the backtrace
always, then try to init the hardware. oprofile_init() should then force
the timer ops as needed.

Greg?

john
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