Re: PEBS (in perf) stopped working from 3.6 -> 3.7

From: Steinar H. Gunderson
Date: Mon Jan 07 2013 - 09:39:52 EST


On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 08:48:36PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
>> Why would the two be different?
> I will make a guess that is processor dependent. On an E5540 with
> 3.4.11-1.fc16.x86_64, 3.6.10-2.fc16.x86_64, and 3.8 I get the same
> failure message.
>
> But on a E5620, it works fine with 3.4 and 3.7 (no intermediate
> kernels on that box).

That sounds a bit odd; the CPU can certainly do it with 3.6.

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