linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel offcore events

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:52:16 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Vince Weaver <vweaver1@...s.utk.edu>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, eranian@...gle.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel
 offcore events

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 13:24 -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Commit-ID:  ed13ec58bfe0d5dc95f748e6118432cb0fa283cb
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/ed13ec58bfe0d5dc95f748e6118432cb0fa283cb
> > Author:     Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> > AuthorDate: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:03:25 +0100
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > CommitDate: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:44 +0100
> > 
> > perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel offcore events
> 
> awesome.  You can add a "Whined-about-it-at-great-length: Vince Weaver"
> line to the commit logs if you want.  Now I'll have to find something else 
> to complain about, probably the scedulability issue introduced with the
> NMI watchdog.

:-)

But you can disable that thing, right?

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog;

or so should do the trick.


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