linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oprofile: don't set counter width from cpuid on core2

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Message-ID: <20090303100412.GC10085@erda.amd.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:04:12 +0100
From:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
To:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oprofile: don't set counter width from cpuid on core2

On 19.02.09 17:34:03, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> resetting the counter width of the performance counters on intel's
> core2, breaks the delivery of NMIs, when running in x86_64 mode.
> 
> this should fix bug #12395:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12395

Applied to oprofile/fixes. Thanks Tim.

Ingo, please pull from

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile.git fixes

for v2.6.29-rc7.

Thanks,

-Robert

-- 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Operating System Research Center
email: robert.richter@....com

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