perf_counter: software counter event infrastructure
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:21:32 +0000 (12:21 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:29:36 +0000 (09:29 +0200)
Provide generic software counter infrastructure that supports
software events.

This will be used to allow sample based profiling based on software
events such as pagefaults. The current infrastructure can only
provide a count of such events, no place information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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