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To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [4/7] oprofile - NMI hook
References: <20021015223319.GD41906@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Date: 16 Oct 2002 00:56:28 +0200
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John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> writes:

> This patch provides a simple api to let oprofile hook into
> the NMI interrupt for the perfctr profiler.

I would suggest using a notifier list instead (include/linux/notifier.h) 
This would handle multiple users cleanly.

-Andi
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