linux-kernel - Re: oprofile broken on 2.6.19

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:17:55 +0100
From:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
CC:	Gert Vervoort <gert.vervoort@...net.nl>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oprofile broken on 2.6.19

Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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 ?

No, I assumed since I don't have any watchdog, I wouldn't have the NMI
thing either... these silly assumptions.

tom
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