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SubjectRe: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> Hello Linus
>
> can you revert the commit b52c55c6a25e4515b5e075a989ff346fc251ed09

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

(I wrote the original patch)

> (finally!) added in the 2.6.39 merge window. However this is a useful
> feature and many tools (including the PAPI performance counter library
> that I work on) had added support for it in anticipation of the 2.6.39

I also use some tools which benefit from this functionality. The
extended raw events are very useful to analyze NUMA problems for once.

-Andi


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