linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

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Date:	Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:23:05 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

> i am experiencing an issue, similar to the one reported in
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/30/319.

bisecting showed, that commit b99170288421c79f0c2efa8b33e26e65f4bb7fb8
(oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support) caused the
problem. 
oddly, the newly introduced api is not used, since the model struct is
set during the ppro_init call ...

best, tim

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