Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)

[Andi Kleen]

> The only reason why I have to deal with NMI is not so much to allow
> for profiling irq-off regions but because I have to share the PMU with
> the NMI watchdog. Otherwise I'd have to fail  or disable the NMI watchdog
> on the fly.

The NMI watchdog is now off by default so failing with it enabled
is fine.

Longer term having NMI profiling is still a useful feature I think,
but of course it needs to be implemented cleanly.

-Andi

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