From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751529AbWJPL2s (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751528AbWJPL2s (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:28:48 -0400 Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:43990 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751529AbWJPL2r (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:28:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:28:32 -0700 From: Stephane Eranian To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add X86_FEATURE_PEBS and detection Message-ID: <20061016112832.GE15540@frankl.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: eranian@hpl.hp.com References: <20061006091006.GD8793@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <200610161209.19503.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610161209.19503.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: eranian@hpl.hp.com X-HPL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-HPL-MailScanner-From: eranian@hpl.hp.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 11:10, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Here is a patch (used by perfmon2) to detect the presence of the > > Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) feature for Intel 64-bit processors. > > The patch also adds the cpu_has_pebs macro. > > > > IMPORTANT: you need to have the X86_FEATURE_DS renaming patch applied first! > > Added both thanks. I suppose similar i386 patches will be needed too. > Yes (take 32-bit P4 for instance), I submitted them to LML already. > If you have patches that depend on each other please number > them in the future. > Ok. -- -Stephane