From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030345AbWJPKPV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:15:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030349AbWJPKPV (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:15:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:40659 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030345AbWJPKPU (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:15:20 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: eranian@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] add X86_FEATURE_PEBS and detection Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:09:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20061006091006.GD8793@frankl.hpl.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20061006091006.GD8793@frankl.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610161209.19503.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 06 October 2006 11:10, Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello, > > Here is a patch (used by perfmon2) to detect the presence of the > Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) feature for Intel 64-bit processors. > The patch also adds the cpu_has_pebs macro. > > IMPORTANT: you need to have the X86_FEATURE_DS renaming patch applied first! Added both thanks. I suppose similar i386 patches will be needed too. If you have patches that depend on each other please number them in the future. -Andi >