Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934014AbZFQO3E (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:29:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757311AbZFQO2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:28:53 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:57653 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752141AbZFQO2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:28:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4A38FD96.6090109@goop.org> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:28:38 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Richter CC: Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/16] x86/oprofile: add module parameter option to force a core 2 cpu References: <1245183355-25808-1-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org> <1245183355-25808-2-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org> <20090617105725.GS18016@erda.amd.com> In-Reply-To: <20090617105725.GS18016@erda.amd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1282 Lines: 40 On 06/17/09 03:57, Robert Richter wrote: > On 16.06.09 13:15:40, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> From: Robert Richter >> >> The current userland does not yet fully support all cpu types >> implemented in the kernel. With the module parameter: >> >> oprofile.cpu_type=core_2 >> >> the kernel reports a core_2 cpu to the userland on an Intel system and >> thus makes oprofile usable with current distros. >> >> Cc: Linus Torvalds >> Cc: Andi Kleen >> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter >> --- >> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++- >> arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c | 17 ++++++++++++++--- >> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> > > Jeremy, > > I dropped this patch. See this thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/6/234 > > Does your patch series depends on this? > Confused. I haven't done anything with oprofile or nmi lately. I don't recognize the patch you're quoting. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/