Re: [PATCH] ia64 support for tools/perf/

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:25 -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > > Btw., are you planning HAVE_PERF_EVENTS support for IA64? (It's nice 
> > > stuff, i can only recommend it! ;-)
> > 
> > My first goal is getting the s/w events hooked up and working.  I'm 
> > still wondering about how to get the h/w counters to co-exist with 
> > perfmon (which has been part of ia64 API for many years).
> 
> A first approach could be to make them mutually exclusive at runtime. 
> When there's a perf_event user, perfmon users get FAIL and vs.
> 
> This is basically the state for x86 perf_event vs oprofile atm.

Yep, this is probably the least intrusive approach. Mixing the 
implementations beyond trivial exclusion would probably be pain.

	Ingo
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