On Thu, Nov 08, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
> A couple of days ago I tried to use oprofile with a recent build of
> 2.6.24-rc1, this resulted in a oops 'BUG: unable to handle kernel paging
> request at virtual address'.
Sorry,
this only happens 32bit. Somehow I broke this when I introduced
stack_pointer(). Here is a patch that fixes the problem.
Thanks,
Jan
--
Subject: oprofile: Fix oops on x86 32-bit
x86 32-bit isn't saving the stack pointer to pt_regs->esp on when an
interrupt occures.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[email protected]>
---
include/asm-x86/ptrace.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: b/include/asm-x86/ptrace.h
===================================================================
--- a/include/asm-x86/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/ptrace.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static inline int v8086_mode(struct pt_r
#define instruction_pointer(regs) ((regs)->eip)
#define frame_pointer(regs) ((regs)->ebp)
-#define stack_pointer(regs) ((regs)->esp)
+#define stack_pointer(regs) ((unsigned long)(regs))
#define regs_return_value(regs) ((regs)->eax)
extern unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs);
-
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