Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 05:42:58 EST


On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:28, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:35, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:21, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > Subject : x86_64: oprofile doesn't work
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/3
> > > Submitter : Prakash Punnoor <prakash@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Status : unknown
> >
>
> I hit the same problem on i386 architecture too, if CONFIG_ACPI is not set.

oprofile is still broken because it cannot deal with the lack of perfctr 0.
You can disable the nmi watchdog as a workaround.

-Andi
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