From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752629Ab1G2RB2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:01:28 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:49006 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752458Ab1G2RB1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:01:27 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] perf, x86: Implement 64 bit counter support for IBS From: Peter Zijlstra To: Robert Richter Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , LKML In-Reply-To: <1311860812-28748-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> References: <1311860812-28748-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> <1311860812-28748-8-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:01:03 +0200 Message-ID: <1311958863.5890.415.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 Thu, 2011-07-28 at 15:46 +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > The functions perf_event_set_period() and perf_event_try_update() can > be used as generic functions. They can replace similar code that is > duplicate across architectures. We could perhaps place them in kernel/events/pmu-lib.c or so, a place to gather useful common code to pmu driver implementations.