[PATCH] Fix performance monitor exception in 2.6.20-series

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Jan 15 14:14:20 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 13:53 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Different PMU, I think; they are talking about the Performance Monitor
> Unit in POWERx cpus. 

Ah, OK. That makes the "doesn't do anything you can't do in an NMI"
assessment make a little more sense to me.

Still, might be worth thinking about whether we can make the Apple PMU
into an NMI to help prevent the error case I mentioned.

-- 
dwmw2




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