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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] ARC: Add perf support for ARC700 cores
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:55:10PM +0100, Mischa Jonker wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please find v3 of my attempt to add support for perf for ARC700 PMU's. If
> > possible, it would be nice to get some feedback on the implementation from
> > non-ARC/Synopsys people familiar with the perf subsystem in Linux.
>
> Anything in particular you wanted feedback on? It looks like a fairly
> straight fwd thingy.

Ah, so its one of those that cannot sample; you might want to fail when
we try and create a sampling event.

Also, you could consider running an (hr)timer to periodically update the
events so that you don't miss a hardware counter wrap around -- if that
is a distinct possibility.



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