Re: [PATCH][RFC] oprofile for 2.5.39

From: John Levon (levon@movementarian.org)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 22:27:56 EST

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On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:08:07AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

> I think you can easily do that by keeping state per cpu in the
> NMI handler.

You're quite right, it's simpler as well.

I had a distinct memory of not doing this because it wouldn't work
originally, but I forget what the reasoning was.

> smp_processor_id - per cpu data doesn't work from modules]

yes, which was why I don't use it already.

[Are there any advantages to per_cpu stuff over hand-coding, other
than readability ??]

thanks
john

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