On Thursday 19 July 2007 12:21:45 Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.07.19 11:55:06 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > From: [** iso-8859-1 charset **] Bj�rnSteinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The Intel PerfMon NMI watchdog was using the generic reservation > > function which always reserves the first performance counter. But the > > watchdog actually uses the second performance counter, thus we need a > > specialised function. > > Ah, almost forgot about that patch. Actually, thanks to your fix that > basically reverted the msr->offset conversation to its 2.6.21 > implementation, single_msr_reserve has sane semantics now and does just > what the name suggests (before, the wd_ops entries had to store the > "base" msrs, so it was really a first_msr_reserve). > > With wd_ops->perfctr no longer needed to be the base msr, we can just > fix that value for the arch perfmon watchdog. (And maybe we should > remove the values for those implementations that don't employ the > single_msr_reserve() stuff?)
I replaced the patch with the new patch, thanks -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
