On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:02:09PM -0700, Carl Love wrote:
> Repost, the first posting had an error in the number of parenthesis.
> 
> This patch fixes access to read only pmd registers, such as the time base
> register.  Currently the routine _pfm_read_pmd() exits on an error if the
> pmd has not been writen to.  Writing to a read only pmd is not valid.

The way it is currently setup is that writes to read-only PMD registers
are ignored. No error is generated, yet the register is marked as used.
See include/linux/perfmon.h:pfm_write_pmd().

Do you have a problem with this approach in your setup?
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