linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] perf crash fix

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Date:	Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:42:21 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf crash fix

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:35 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to, but I thought we could avoid two indirect calls on each
> > ticks and I was also afraid of breaking start/stop original semantics,
> > more especially the role of perf_event_stop/start
> 
> Right, so you lost the fallback to ->enable/->disable, which would break
> hardware PMU implementations that didn't actually implement
> ->start/->stop (pretty much all of them except x86).


Indeed.

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