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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:00:29 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] perf: allow for custom overflow handlers
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:19:43PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> in-kernel perf users might wish to have custom actions on the sample
> interrupt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>


I haven't yet answered to your previous message about using such
callback but yes, that's exactly the type of callback we want for
events that need to dispatch events in several different ways.

I'll try to use it for the hw-breakpoints.

Thanks.