On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:48:05 +0100 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > OProfile has a simplistic view of the performance monitoring hardware. > > > The > > > routines in libop/op_alloc_counter.c determine what set of performance > > > registers > > > is available from the processor in use. There is no check to see what > > > registers > > > are actually available in the /dev/oprofile directory. > > > > > > opcontrol executes ophelp to determine which specific counters to count > > > which > > > events. The function map_event_to_counter() in libop/op_alloc_counter.c > > > does the > > > actual selection. It seems what is needed is for map_event_to_counter() > > > to check > > > to see which counters are available and mark the others as unavailable > > > > Thanks for the explanation. Can you please fix it and release a new > > version? > > Documentation/Changes could be adapted then. > > > > Meanwhile we should restore the NMI counter to fix this bug.
No, it was always oprofile who was buggy here, silently taking the nmi watchdog away. -Andi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
