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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [2.6.17-rc5-mm2] crash when doing second suspend: BUG in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:174
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> Or does this also tie into other uses of the performance registers which
> may be set per-CPU?

That's it. The registration is to properly share performance registers
between oprofile, nmi watchdog and other users.

-Andi