From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@elte.hu, x86@kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:29:10 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811271115370.3325@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c86c4470811270209q18d4e83aq8901837159838cc4@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, stephane eranian wrote:
> > Lockless buffers are nasty, but it works in oprofile at least.
> >
> > Taking out NMis in the first version at least seems like a reasonable
> > solution. After all you can still use standard oprofile where they work
> > just fine.
> >
> The only reason why I have to deal with NMI is not so much to allow
> for profiling irq-off regions but because I have to share the PMU with
> the NMI watchdog. Otherwise I'd have to fail or disable the NMI watchdog
> on the fly.
We can limit the functionality here. Fail or disable the NMI watchdog
are both valid solutions.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-27 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-26 8:42 eranian
2008-11-26 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 12:05 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 12:22 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 12:48 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 13:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:56 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 16:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 9:51 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 11:37 ` David Miller
2008-11-27 14:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 14:00 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 21:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 21:37 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 23:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 9:38 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 22:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 10:06 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 10:09 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:29 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2008-11-27 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:35 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 11:42 ` David Miller
2008-11-27 11:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 12:38 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:31 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 13:37 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:51 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:04 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:32 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:28 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:45 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:30 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:47 ` stephane eranian
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2008-11-25 21:36 eranian
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