Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs | Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 09:22:25 +0200 |
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On Monday 15 May 2006 03:50, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> > Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters > ( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual > http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This > feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.
Nice!
> What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance > monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid). > And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural > events. > > Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver. > Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.
Can you regenerate it against the latest firstfloor tree please? With Don's x86-64 NMI changes there are a zillion rejects.
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