On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 13:41 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi Mike, Ben,
> 
> I just noticed:
> 
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig:   select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI if PPC64

We actually only added that recently, in c54b2bf1b5e9 "powerpc: Add ppc64 hard
lockup detector support".

AFAICS it doesn't actually have anything to do with the NMI behaviour of the
perf interrupt. It controls whether the hardlockup detector is enabled and/or
the oprofile NMI timer.

cheers


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