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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>,
	stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>,
	Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 13/13] perf: Rework the PMU methods
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1278769642.1998.34.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100710133647.GA5306@nowhere>

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 15:36 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> So, if I understood well, this is to avoid enabling an event from perf_pmu_enable()
> while the event was already stopped.

Right.

> Looks good but why this ARCH name then? This should be a kind of PERF_HES_ONCPU
> or so.

Because I failed to come up with a sensible name, ONCPU doesn't really
make sense either, its got nothing to do with CPUs.

_REALLY_STOPPED maybe, but then, that's a bad name too ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-10 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09  8:21 [RFC][PATCH 00/13] perf pmu interface changes -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [PATCH 01/13] perf, x86: Fix Nehalem PMU quirk Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [PATCH 02/13] sparc64: Fix maybe_change_configuration() PCR setting Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [PATCH 03/13] perf: Fix CPU hotplug Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [PATCH 04/13] perf, powerpc: Use perf_sample_data_init() for the FSL code Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [PATCH 05/13] perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 06/13] perf: deconstify struct pmu Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 07/13] perf: register pmu implementations Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 08/13] perf: Unindent labels Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 09/13] perf: Reduce perf_disable() usage Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 10/13] perf: Per PMU disable Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09 10:17   ` Paul Mackerras
2010-07-09 10:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09 10:39       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 11/13] perf: Default PMU ops Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 12/13] perf: Shrink hw_perf_event Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09  8:21 ` [RFC][PATCH 13/13] perf: Rework the PMU methods Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-10 13:36   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-07-10 13:47     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-07-09 10:39 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/13] perf pmu interface changes -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09 15:11 ` Will Deacon
2010-07-09 15:52   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-07-09 23:34     ` Matt Fleming
2010-07-09 16:09   ` Peter Zijlstra

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