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

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Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:40:36 +0100
From:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: oprofile regression

> Hmm, strange. Actually 7c64ade53a6f977d73f16243865c42ceae999aea fixed
> a similiar bug, see here:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11908
> 
> Your patch with 2.6.28, does:
> 
>  grep NMI /proc/interrupts
> 
> returns exactly 1 NMI per core or some more?

that bug is similar, but it reports different numbers of NMIs for the
cores.
i get exactly one NMI per core, for each time, i start oprofile:

NMI: 0
opcontrol -s
(wait)
opcontrol --deinit
NMI: 1
opcontrol -s
(wait)
opcontrol --deinit
NMI: 2

hth, tim

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