Re: [Xen-devel] Xenoprof: getting Oprofile out of timer mode?

["Ray Bryant" <raybry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 May 2006 02:02, Santos, Jose Renato G wrote:
> According to the Intel manual cpu_model 6 has the same
> perf counters as the other models of the p4 family.
> Thus, the patch seems the right fix, except
> that it would be better to use (cpu_model > 6)
> instead of (cpu_model > 7).
> Keir is right, oprofile should have the same problem
> in native Linux. I guess we could submit a similar
> patch for oprofile to the linux kernel mailing list.
>
> Renato
>

Ah, no, you need to return 1 for success.   If the current cpu_model is 6, 
then "if (cpu_model > 6)" will return 0 and xenoprof/oprofile will remain in 
timer mode. 

-- 
Ray Bryant
AMD Performance Labs                   Austin, Tx
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