Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:00:49 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: perf: PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD on ARM vs everywhere else |
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 08:57:00AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > Should other architectures be updated to? I just wanted to find out the > > rationale for this before I update the manpage to reflect the difference > > in behaviors between architectures. > > I don't want to be the `oddball' architecture (at least, not more than I am > already :), but I do find it tricky to follow the required semantics of perf > as opposed to `it happens to work this way', especially when so much of it > is buried in the various arch backends. So if somebody using the thing on > ARM has (what looks to me like) a valid issue, then I usually try and fix > it.
Hurmph.. at least raise the issue for the other archs.
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