Re: re-enable Nehalem raw Offcore-Events support

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> Hello Linus
> 
> can you revert the commit b52c55c6a25e4515b5e075a989ff346fc251ed09

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(I wrote the original patch)

> (finally!) added in the 2.6.39 merge window.  However this is a useful 
> feature and many tools (including the PAPI performance counter library 
> that I work on) had added support for it in anticipation of the 2.6.39 

I also use some tools which benefit from this functionality. The
extended raw events are very useful to analyze NUMA problems for once.

-Andi
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