Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759138Ab1D2P1k (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:27:40 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:64402 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754162Ab1D2P1i (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:27:38 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,288,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="635883460" Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:27:36 -0700 From: Andi Kleen To: Vince Weaver Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Stephane Eranian Subject: Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support Message-ID: <20110429152736.GA6517@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 833 Lines: 22 On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote: > Hello Linus > > can you revert the commit b52c55c6a25e4515b5e075a989ff346fc251ed09 Acked-by: Andi Kleen (I wrote the original patch) > (finally!) added in the 2.6.39 merge window. However this is a useful > feature and many tools (including the PAPI performance counter library > that I work on) had added support for it in anticipation of the 2.6.39 I also use some tools which benefit from this functionality. The extended raw events are very useful to analyze NUMA problems for once. -Andi -- 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/