Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:42:45 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
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       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
       phil.el@wanadoo.fr, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:36:14 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:35, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:21, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > Subject    : x86_64: oprofile doesn't work
> > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/3
> > > > Submitter  : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
> > > > Status     : unknown
> > >
> > 
> > I hit the same problem on i386 architecture too, if CONFIG_ACPI is not set.
> 
> oprofile is still broken because it cannot deal with the lack of perfctr 0.

The kernel is still broken because we changed the interface.

> You can disable the nmi watchdog as a workaround.

I don't understand why you think this is acceptable.
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