Peter Zijlstra ca037701a0 perf, x86: Add PEBS infrastructure ... This patch implements support for Intel Precise Event Based Sampling, which is an alternative counter mode in which the counter triggers a hardware assist to collect information on events. The hardware assist takes a trap like snapshot of a subset of the machine registers. This data is written to the Intel Debug-Store, which can be programmed with a data threshold at which to raise a PMI. With the PEBS hardware assist being trap like, the reported IP is always one instruction after the actual instruction that triggered the event. This implements a simple PEBS model that always takes a single PEBS event at a time. This is done so that the interaction with the rest of the system is as expected (freq adjust, period randomization, lbr, callchains, etc.). It adds an ABI element: perf_event_attr::precise, which indicates that we wish to use this (constrained, but precise) mode. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: robert.richter@amd.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <20100304140100.392111285@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>		2010-03-10 13:23:31 +01:00
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asm-generic	gpio: introduce gpio_request_one() and friends	2010-03-06 11:26:48 -08:00
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linux	perf, x86: Add PEBS infrastructure	2010-03-10 13:23:31 +01:00
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sound	Merge branch 'topic/misc' into for-linus	2010-03-08 09:35:50 +01:00
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