[PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:26:06AM +0000, Jamie Iles wrote:
> This was my mistake and I don't think we should continue - we'd _probably_ be
> ok for sampling counters, but for the counting counters we could hit problems
> if the counters weren't being scheduled in and out. For example if someone did
> 'perf stat -a -e cycles -- sleep 1m' then the cycle counter would not need to
> be scheduled out, the counter could wrap a few times and we wouldn't know
> because we didn't get an interrupt.

Jamie,

Please let me know when these patches have stabilised.