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DateFri, 2 Dec 2005 12:36:42 +0100
FromAndi Kleen <>
SubjectRe: [discuss] Re: [Perfctr-devel] Re: Enabling RDPMC in user space by default
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:09:31PM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> But the interrupt is programmed for all counters. So by forcing the PMU
> interrupt to use the NMI vector then any perfmon interface would have to use

That is how it works yes. oprofile also uses NMIs.

> this interrupt as well. That will break the whole thing because in many
> places we rely on PMU interrupt being off.

If you rely on that then your subsystem is not usable on x86/x86-64.

-Andi
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