On Thursday 16 November 2006 06:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:21:09 +0100 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > If it's really true that oprofile is simply busted then that's a serious > > > problem and we should find some way of unbusting it. If that means just > > > adding a dummy "0" entry which always returns zero or something like that, > > > then fine. > > > > That could be probably done. > > I'm told that this is exactly what it was doing before it got changed.
Hmm, ok perhaps that can be arranged again. The trouble is that I want to use this performance counter for other purposes too, so we would run into trouble again if oprofile keeps stealing it. > > > But we can't just go and bust it. > > > > It just did something unbelievable broken before. > > What did it do? Silently kill the nmi watchdog. > > > I would say it busted > > itself. > > It gave profiles, which was fairly handy. I'm sure it can be fixed there. Ok ok I keep sounding like a sysfs maintainer now @) -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/
