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On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 14:39 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > that it currently doesn't allow to mix software and hardware events into a
> > single group (should be fixed soon).
> 
> I see Ingo committed this series into the tip perf/core branch.  Did
> this problem get fixed before that, or does it still need to be fixed? 

I thought I fixed it, but I realized I only fixed half of it.

The current state is that it allows to add software events to hardware
groups, but does not allow adding a hardware event to a pure software
group.

I'll try and get a patch done that attempts fixing that.