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Message-ID: <20071113212902.GA17593@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:29:02 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@....hp.com>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>, akpm@...l.org,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>, gregkh@...e.de,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, perfmon@...ali.hpl.hp.com,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
perfmon2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:13:45PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Oprofile does not setup the PMU interrupt. It builds on top of the NMI watchdog
> setup.
Oprofile works without the NMI watchdog too, but it just happens to be another
NMI user.
> It uses the register_die() mechanism,
Not correct.
> if I recall. The low level APIC
> and gate is setup elsewhere. Perfmon does not use NMI, unless forced to because
> of the NMI watchdog.
It could handle it in the same way as oprofile if it wanted. But given
NMIs make everything more complicated and it might not be worth it.
-Andi
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