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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	eranian@googlemail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, x86@kernel.org,
	eranian@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:22:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081126122217.GW6703@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081126230529.ab37fb32.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:05:29PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andi,
> 
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:33:09 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >
> > > + * x86 does not need extra alignment requirements for the sampling buffer
> > > + */
> > > +#define PFM_ARCH_SMPL_ALIGN_SIZE	0
> > > +
> > > +asmlinkage void  pmu_interrupt(void);
> > > +
> > > +static inline void pfm_arch_bv_copy(u64 *a, u64 *b, int nbits)
> > 
> > All these bitmap wrappers just seem like unnecessary obfuscation.
> > Could you just drop them and call the standard functions directly?
> 
> These were added after comments from the PowerPC maintainer since how the
> bitmaps are accessed needs to be arch specific.

Why? They should not be exported outside, so endian shouldn't matter, should
it?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26  8:42 [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86) eranian
2008-11-26 11:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 12:05   ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 12:22     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-11-26 12:48       ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-26 13:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:56       ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 16:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27  9:51           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:56             ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 11:37               ` David Miller
2008-11-27 14:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 13:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 14:00   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-26 21:18     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-26 21:37       ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 23:16         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27  9:38           ` stephane eranian
2008-11-26 22:54     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 10:06       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 10:09         ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 10:29           ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 11:31           ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:35             ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 11:42               ` David Miller
2008-11-27 11:49                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 12:38                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:31                     ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:46                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:32                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-11-27 13:37                         ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:51                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:50                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 11:52               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:04                 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:16                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-27 12:32               ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 12:28                 ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 12:45                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:30                     ` stephane eranian
2008-11-27 13:49                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-27 13:47                         ` stephane eranian
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2008-11-25 21:36 eranian

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