On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:56:51PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > Another option would be to have a context per-pmu. Each context's pmu > pointer would be valid, and (other than the case of software events) it > doesn't make sense to place events from disparate PMUs into the same > group anyway. Then you don't need a fixed sized pmu list in the context > or some arcane list structs.
No it does make sense; for example on hardware that doesn't have a PMI you can create a software event + hardware event group and have the software interrupt read the hardware counter and still get 'some' sampling. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
