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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts/checksyscalls.sh: only whine perf_counter_open when supported
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:05, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> If the port does not support HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS, then they can't
>> support the perf_counter_open syscall either.  Rather than forcing
>> everyone to add an ignore (or suffer the warning until they get
>> around to implementing support), only whine about the syscall when
>> applicable.
>
> No, this patch is wrong - it's really easy to add support: just hook
> up the syscall. This should happen for every architecture really, so
> the warning is correct and it should not be patched out.
>
> PMU support is not required to get perfcounters support: if an
> architecture hooks up the syscall it will get generic software
> counters and the tools will work as well.
>
> Profiling falls back to a hrtimer-based sampling method - this is a
> much better fallback than oprofile's fall-back to the timer tick.
> This hrtimer based sampling is dynticks/nohz-correct and can go
> beyond HZ if the architecture supports hrtimers.

these statements are actually incorrect. the perf counter code
explicitly requires:
- asm/perf_counter.h
- support for atomic64 types (unless i missed something, x86 is the
only 32bit system that supports these)
- some perf stubs (like set_perf_counter_pending() -- prototype
really should be in common perf_counters headers rather than forcing
the arch to copy & paste the exact same line)

not that any of this is documented ...
-mike
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