Re: [GIT PULL] perf crash fix

[Frederic Weisbecker]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:35 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to, but I thought we could avoid two indirect calls on each
> > ticks and I was also afraid of breaking start/stop original semantics,
> > more especially the role of perf_event_stop/start
> 
> Right, so you lost the fallback to ->enable/->disable, which would break
> hardware PMU implementations that didn't actually implement
> ->start/->stop (pretty much all of them except x86).


Indeed.

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