Re: [PATCH 3/7] perf_counter: ioctl(PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET)
From: Corey Ashford
Date: Tue May 05 2009 - 14:31:36 EST
Hi Peter,
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
+static void perf_counter_reset(struct perf_counter *counter)
+{
+ atomic_set(&counter->count, 0);
+}
+
Thanks for posting a patch for this issue.
As Ingo said, I think the hardware counter needs to be reset as well as
the value saved in the perf_counter struct.
Regards,
- Corey
Corey Ashford
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxx
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