Re: [PATCH 2/5] perf, x86: Enable PDIR precise instruction profiling on IvyBridge

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 03 2012 - 00:04:46 EST


> Well, the only way I can think of would be to request that the
> event be programmed with exclusive mode ALWAYS. That
> should not be to hard to add.

I suspect it would need some special callbacks from the events core,
that's why I only tried on IvyBridge.

Anyways, I'll drop it as the people in charge didn't approve of
instruction sampling.

-Andi
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