From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754216Ab1GEIn5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:43:57 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:41338 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753788Ab1GEIn4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:43:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf: Add memory load/store events generic code From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andi Kleen Cc: Lin Ming , Ingo Molnar , Stephane Eranian , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20110704220123.GJ15637@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1309766525-14089-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> <1309766525-14089-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com> <1309768420.3282.8.camel@twins> <20110704220123.GJ15637@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:43:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1309855413.3282.35.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 00:01 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Did anybody check with the other PMUs that have similar features like > > PowerPC and possibly IA64? > > IA64 has a similar feature I believe, but I'm not aware of anyone > working on that. Working on it isn't the important part, the important part is that we don't make it impossible to implement would someone be willing to work on it.