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

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Date:	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:04:17 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 03:42 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Tim Blechmann wrote:
> >> 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 ...
> 
> We're still investigating the problem. Thanks for the report.

btw, this issue still exists in tip/oprofile ... not sure, whether this
may be related, but i am running the machine in 64-bit mode ...

best, tim

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