Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:31:15 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86) |
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> 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.
The NMI watchdog is now off by default so failing with it enabled is fine.
Longer term having NMI profiling is still a useful feature I think, but of course it needs to be implemented cleanly.
-Andi
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