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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:02:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
>    
> oprofile can perfectly legitimately be used to monitor 32-bit binaries
> running on under a 64-bit kernel environment.  In fact I expect such
> exercises to be very instructive.  Anton Blanchard has done this
> already on ppc64.

That's not the _point_.

Oprofile is a system binary, and as such you might as well use a 64-bit 
oprofile.

Of y ou can use am /etc/systype file that contains information.

BUT WE DON'T ADD CRAP TO THE KERNEL!

That's final.

		Linus

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