From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756000AbWKQWpb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:45:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756003AbWKQWpb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:45:31 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:49028 "EHLO mail.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756000AbWKQWpa (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:45:30 -0500 Message-ID: <455E3E6A.9090600@goop.org> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:57:46 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: eranian@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 add Intel PEBS and BTS cpufeature bits and detection References: <20061115213241.GC17238@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <455D11B9.4080302@goop.org> <200611170529.02460.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200611170529.02460.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > I have had private patches for that myself, using the MSRs on AMD > and Intel. > Would they be something that could be cleaned up into something mergeable? It would be nice to have something that could be left enabled all the time, but an option would at least make the functionality available. J