From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756486AbYIKV7v (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:59:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753830AbYIKV7o (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:59:44 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38585 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752570AbYIKV7n (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:59:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080911.145937.178601244.davem@davemloft.net> To: elad_lahav@users.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Initial support for Niagara T1 performance counters From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <48C98820.3080009@users.sourceforge.net> References: <48C98820.3080009@users.sourceforge.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Elad Lahav Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:05:36 -0400 > The patch handles performance counter overflow traps, which are > currently being ignored. Full support for both T1 and T2 performance counters (as well as those of all other sparc64 processors) is contained in the perfmon2 tree. Those patches handle the overflow conditions and everything else. There is no reason to put short term hacks like this on into the tree, meanwhile.