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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:20:21 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: mingo@elte.hu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] perf: Use LBR for machine/oops debugging
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The LBRs are relatively cheap to keep enabled and provide some history
to OOPSen, also some CPUs are reported to keep them over soft-reset,
which allows us to use them to debug things like tripple faults.

Therefore introduce a boot option: lbr_debug=on, which always enable
the LBRs and will print the LBRs on CPU init and die().