Corey,

Didn't you submit a patch to fix this problem a while back?
It was in assembly code, if I recall.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Corey Ashford
<cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> I want to report that perfmon2 in 2.6.28-rc6 is broken somehow on
> Power6, and possibly all Power-based machines.
>
> Today, I tried booting Stephane's 2.6.28-rc6 perfmon2 kernel with
> perfmon2 enabled, and it hangs during the boot-up process right after
> outputting the line "INIT: version 2.86 booting"
>
> Without perfmon2 enabled, it boots up fine.
>
> So something has regressed, and I'm not sure what.  I will see if I can
> find the culprit and submit a patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Corey
>
> Corey Ashford
> Software Engineer
> IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
> Beaverton, OR
> 503-578-3507
> cjash...@us.ibm.com
>
>
>
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