linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Initial support for Niagara T1 performance counters

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Message-Id: <20080911.145937.178601244.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	elad_lahav@...rs.sourceforge.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial support for Niagara T1 performance counters

From: Elad Lahav <elad_lahav@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:05:36 -0400

> The patch handles performance counter overflow traps, which are
> currently being ignored.

Full support for both T1 and T2 performance counters (as well as those
of all other sparc64 processors) is contained in the perfmon2 tree.

Those patches handle the overflow conditions and everything else.

There is no reason to put short term hacks like this on into the tree,
meanwhile.
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