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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf, x86: Don't assume the alternative cycles
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On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 18:08 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> How about newer unknown Intel CPUs with arch_perfmon >= 3? Those would get 
> intel_pmu, correct?  There's no guarantee that they support the trick.

But they will have no PEBS constraints set, so effectively don't have
PEBS.