On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:50:54PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Bill and I saw this when we were triggering system hangs using IDE I/O.  But
> I think one *other* thing we discovered is that something's wrong with
> kernel profiling -- we couldn't find any routine with enough "self" time to
> exdplain this, and further investigation made me suspect that the times
> reported by gprof were in at least some cases bogus.  Also, since the ELF
> switch for x86 kernels, gprof seems unable to exclude routines...

What if the *hardware* hangs ? Wouldn't this stop the profiling counters ?

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