From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270952AbTGPRIb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:08:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270961AbTGPRHe (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:07:34 -0400 Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.93]:50189 "EHLO serenity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270952AbTGPRFH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:05:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:19:56 +0100 From: John Levon To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Mallick, Asit K" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use of Performance Monitoring Counters based on Model number Message-ID: <20030716171956.GC19910@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19cpwa-0005zT-KW*Md2Y1s3tIlg* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07:49AM -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > Attached is a small patch to make Linux kernel use of performance > monitoring MSRs based on known processor models. Future processor > implementation models may not support the same MSR layout. If you're going to do this you should fix up arch/i386/oprofile/ to error out similarly at least regards john