From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:24:31 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101ca7cd9$ead75b10$c0861130$@deacon@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091214162003.GI4141@wear.picochip.com>
* Jamie Iles wrote:
> > Why are you modifying mm/Kconfig? I think it would be better to change the
> > Makefile to use CONFIG_HAVE_PERF_EVENTS rather than define a new bool.
> Because this bool says that we support hardware perf events. If it isn't set,
> we can still do perf events, but only the software variety. This allows us to
> do software events for ARMv5 and earlier, but also do hardware counter support
> where available.
Ok, sorry I missed that. I still feel that it should be in the top-level ARM
Kconfig instead of the mm/Kconfig though.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-14 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-14 14:04 ARMv6 performance counters v2 Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:12 ` Jean Pihet
2009-12-14 16:33 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:57 ` Jean Pihet
2009-12-14 17:09 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-14 16:13 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-14 16:20 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:24 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2009-12-14 17:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Nicolas Pitre
2009-12-14 19:36 ` Will Deacon
[not found] ` <001301ca7cf4$c04481a0$40cd84e0$%deacon@arm.com>
2009-12-14 19:52 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-12-15 10:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2009-12-14 16:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jean Pihet
2009-12-14 16:04 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-14 16:10 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Will Deacon
2009-12-14 15:03 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:01 ` Jean Pihet
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-15 11:15 ARMv6 performance counters v3 Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 14:29 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-15 15:02 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 15:05 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-15 15:19 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15 15:36 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-16 10:54 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-16 11:04 ` Will Deacon
2009-12-16 11:19 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ARM perf events support v4 Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 11:17 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-04 11:46 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-05 18:07 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-05 18:23 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-05 22:26 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-05 22:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-06 0:18 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-06 12:09 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-06 12:14 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ARM perf events support v5 Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 9:39 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 10:28 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 10:37 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 10:38 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-21 10:56 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:21 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-21 12:27 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 12:32 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-21 14:04 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 12:34 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:42 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-22 15:25 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-26 16:03 ` Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-26 16:09 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-26 16:11 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-26 17:47 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-27 17:26 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-27 17:40 ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-27 17:57 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-28 11:26 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-30 16:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 17:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 17:28 ` Jamie Iles
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