Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] ia64 support for tools/perf/ | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:56:36 +0100 |
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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.
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