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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] perf_events: add support for Intel fixed counter 2
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
I doubt that but I will check with them.

The alternative I thought about would be to use a bit in the upper 32
bit section
of attr.config and use the constraint->cmask to catch it. That would
be a special
cmask. That would probably work because ALL events have to go through
get_constraints().


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