Re: x86's nmi_hz wrt. oprofile's nmi_timer_int.c

[Andi Kleen]

> Look at the fallback logic, the pure NMI profiler can fail for
> a number of reasons, not just because the watchdog is in
> I/O APIC mode.

I assume you mean nmi_init? It doesn't check for the watchdog at all,
just if it knows the CPU and if it can profile
All the reasons it fails on (unknown CPU, no APIC) will imply that the lapic 
based watchdog won't run either, because it relies on the same
perfctr hardware. The only case where it could fall into 
this path is in IO-APIC nmi watchdog mode (and unknown CPU) and then again 
the IO-APIC watchdog doesn't do the multiple frequencies thing, it always
runs with HZ.

Admittedly the logic is quite obscure.

-Andi
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