Re: elilo option to disable perfmon

Zhu, Yi
2003-07-21T06:54:56Z

Hi Stephane,

Thank you for your quick answer!

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:21:32PM +0800, Zhu, Yi wrote:
> >
> > Is there any option to disable perfmon from elilo? I ask this question because when I
> > boot my tiger4 at loading ramdisk, it begins to infinite loop with message,
> >
>
> No there is no such an option. Perfmon is a kernel compile time option.
>
> > perfmon: Spurious PMU overflow interrupt on CPU1: pmc0=0x0
> > owner\000000000000000
> > perfmon: Spurious PMU overflow interrupt on CPU2: pmc0=0x0
> > owner\000000000000000
> >
>
> This should not happen at boot time.
>
> I don't know what is in UL (United Linux?)?

Yes, United Linux.

>
> Could you try with a more recent kernel 2.4.21 from Bjorn?

You mean the patch from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/ ?

>
>
> > I used UL IPF version kernel 2.4.20.
> >
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> > Thanks,
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> -Stephane