Re: perf_disable()

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Jun 14 2010 - 05:23:34 EST


Hi Peter,

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:29 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been going over perf_disable() usage in kernel/perf_event.c and
> wondered if we actually need it at all.

-------->8--------

> If nobody else known about/can find anything, I'm going to mostly remove
> perf_disable() for now and later think about how to optimize the
> hardware writes again.

No objections from the ARM camp as we don't use perf_disable() for
anything anyway.

Will


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