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

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Message-ID: <20090303110545.GB11532@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:05:45 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc:	Tim Blechmann <tim@...ngt.org>, 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


* Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com> wrote:

> 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.

Pulled, thanks a lot Robert!

Note: i amended the commit to add a tag for the .28 backport 
[this fix is .28.x relevant] and to fix a few small details 
(removed the goto, etc.).

	Ingo
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