linux-kernel - Re: introduce NMI_AUTO as nmi

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:27:29 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, aris@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: introduce NMI_AUTO as nmi_watchdog option

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:16:33PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
...
> I was going to jump in and try to do this work.  I wanted to make sure
> what you were looking for here.  When you say convert nmi watchdog to perf
> events, I assume you mean merging over the bits of perfctr-watchdog.c to
> perf_events.c, modify nmi.c to just register as a normal perf event and
> probably cleanup the oprofile stuff to match, correct?
> 
> Cheers,
> Don
>

As far as I know -- converting perfctr-watchdog.c to into perfevents
style would be quite a desirable feature. But I still didn't manage to
find time for this task :( If you're interested to start this work
-- that would be just great!

	-- Cyrill
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