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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:08:42 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>, Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, oerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Zachary Amsden <zamsden@...hat.com>, zhiteng.huang@...el.com, tim.c.chen@...el.com Subject: Re: [RFC] para virt interface of perf to support kvm guest os statistics collection in guest os On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 12:41 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > >> Disabling the watchdog is unfortunate. Why is it necessary? > >> > > perf always uses NMI, so we disable the nmi_watchdog when a perf_event is > > set up in case they might have impact. > > > > Ok. Is that the case for the hardware pmus as well? If so it might be > done in common code. The x86 hardware pmu implementation disables the lapic watchdog too, but recent kernels come with a watchdog implementation on top of perf, the old lapic one will be depricated. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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