Re: [PATCH -tip, final] perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in asake of nmi-watchdog on P4

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:31 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Secondly, the proper solution would be to allow the multiplexing of 
> like-minded hw events. 

Right, that's something that's been mentioned before (wasn't that akpm
who asked that?). Anyway that's terribly non-trivial, but I guess we can
minimize impact on the sample fast-path by using a custom overflow
handler for those.

/me gets a migraine just thinking about how to implement that ;-)
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