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SubjectRe: register_timer_hook use in arch/sh/oprofile
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On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:24 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> [ And long-term analysis ('perf stat' type of runs) dont need IRQs
> anyway - perfcounters reads outs the counts and summarizes them
> across the measured workload. ]

If the counter width is less than 64 bits we do need to have some
interrupt to read them from before they cycle so we can accumulate the
deltas into a proper u64.

But for proper 64 bit hardware counters there is indeed no need for
that.


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