Re: [PATCH] Use of Performance Monitoring Counters based on Model number

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2003 - 13:05:35 EST


On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:19:56PM +0100, John Levon 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

It'd also be nice to let the user know why things aren't working
instead of silent failure. A simple

        printk (KERN_INFO "Performance counter support for this CPU not yet added.\n");

Should do the trick.

                Dave
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