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

[Jamie Iles]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 05:14:54PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.
I think they're good to go now. I sent the original patch as the update by
accident as 5902/2 but 5902/3 includes the fix.

Jamie