Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf_events: add support for Intel fixed counter 2 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:12:40 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:00 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> This series of patches solves this problem by introducing a custom > encoding for UNHALTED_REFERENCE_CYCLES (0xff3c) and improving > the constraint infrastructure to handle events which can ONLY be > measured on fixed counters.
Right, so the only problem I can see with this is that Intel will at some point in the future put an actual event there.
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