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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-10-08 15:05:50 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-10-08 15:05:50 -0400
commitb924f9599dfd4a604761e84b1e920e480fb57f66 (patch)
treea1456ef8aea8beb8415d8258a978e072467d8ff6 /tools/perf/design.txt
parentb9d40b7b1e349bdc5c174b4ef1a333e62f7d749c (diff)
parent2dca6999eed58d44b67e9de7d6ec230f6250553d (diff)
Merge branch 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: mm, perf_event: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBA perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
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@@ -455,3 +455,6 @@ will need at least this:
455 455
456If your architecture does have hardware capabilities, you can override the 456If your architecture does have hardware capabilities, you can override the
457weak stub hw_perf_event_init() to register hardware counters. 457weak stub hw_perf_event_init() to register hardware counters.
458
459Architectures that have d-cache aliassing issues, such as Sparc and ARM,
460should select PERF_USE_VMALLOC in order to avoid these for perf mmap().