linux-kernel - Re: oprofile broken on 2.6.19

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:47:48 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
Cc:	Gert Vervoort <gert.vervoort@...net.nl>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oprofile broken on 2.6.19

On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:37, Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> Gert Vervoort wrote:
> > Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> >> Gert Vervoort wrote:
> >>> When I try to use oprofile on 2.6.19, it does not seem to work:
> >>
> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/22/172
> >
> > Disabling the nmi watchdog, as suggested in:
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=oprofile-list&m=116422889324043&w=2,
> > also makes oprofile work again.
>
> Oh.. that seem to be much easier then compiling a patched oprofile :)
> However, I can't find any NMI option (grep NMI .config), and
> CONFIG_WATCHDOG is disabled here.

Sure, but did you tried to boot with 'nmi_watchdog=0' appended in your boot 
params ?

Eric
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