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SubjectRE: [PATCH] ia64 support for tools/perf/
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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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