ARM: 5899/2: arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters
authorJamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:23:15 +0000 (20:23 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:23:43 +0000 (17:23 +0000)
To add support for perf events and to allow the hardware counters to be
shared with oprofile, we need a way to reserve access to the pmu
(performance monitor unit). Platforms with PMU interrupts should
register the interrupts in arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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