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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perfcounters: fix a few minor cleanliness issues
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On Thursday 26 February 2009, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> This fixes three issues noticed by Arnd Bergmann:
>
> - Add #ifdef __KERNEL__ and move some things around in perf_counter.h
>   to make sure only the bits that userspace needs are exported to
>   userspace.
>
> - Use __u64, __s64, __u32 types in the structs exported to userspace
>   rather than u64, s64, u32.
>
> - Make the sys_perf_counter_open syscall available to the SPUs on
>   Cell platforms.
>
> And one issue that I noticed in looking at the code again:
>
> - Wrap the perf_counter_open syscall with SYSCALL_DEFINE4 so we get
>   the proper handling of int arguments on ppc64 (and some other 64-bit
>   architectures).
>
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

Thanks for the follow-up!

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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