From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [Perfctr-devel] Re: Enabling RDPMC in user space by default
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:36:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051202113642.GK997@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051202070931.GA3819@frankl.hpl.hp.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-02 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-29 15:15 Enabling RDPMC in user space by default Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 16:04 ` Mikael Pettersson
2005-11-29 16:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 16:56 ` Ray Bryant
2005-11-29 16:15 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 18:09 ` [Perfctr-devel] " Stephane Eranian
2005-11-29 18:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 18:29 ` John Reiser
2005-11-29 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 19:05 ` Lee Revell
2005-11-29 21:43 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-11-29 21:52 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 22:19 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-29 22:51 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-11-30 16:01 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-30 16:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 23:41 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-12-02 0:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-02 7:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-12-02 11:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-11-29 22:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-11-29 22:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 23:02 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-11-29 23:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 23:29 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-11-29 23:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 23:56 ` David Gibson
2005-11-30 0:34 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-30 0:52 ` David Gibson
2005-11-30 1:04 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-11-30 0:50 ` Ray Bryant
2005-11-30 0:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-30 7:38 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-30 8:22 ` Nicholas Miell
2005-11-30 15:48 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-29 23:07 ` David Gibson
2005-11-29 23:18 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-11-29 23:28 ` Bernd Schmidt
2005-11-29 23:46 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-11-30 2:39 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-11-30 3:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 4:08 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 13:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 17:01 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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