[PATCH] Fix perfctr oops on ppc32

[David Woodhouse]

This seems to be the reason why the Fedora rawhide 2.6.31-rc kernel
doesn't boot. With some CPUs, cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type can be
NULL -- which makes strcmp() unhappy.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
At first glance, it looks like there are a bunch of other places which
use cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type without first checking if it's
non-NULL, but maybe those are all 64-bit and all 64-bit cpu types have
it set?

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
index 75ff47f..ea383c1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mpc7450-pmu.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ struct power_pmu mpc7450_pmu = {
 
 static int init_mpc7450_pmu(void)
 {
-	if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/7450"))
+	if (cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type &&
+	    strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/7450"))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	return register_power_pmu(&mpc7450_pmu);


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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation