perf_counter: Fix software counters for fast moving event sources
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:29:32 +0000 (09:29 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 9 Aug 2009 10:54:30 +0000 (12:54 +0200)
Reimplement the software counters to deal with fast moving
event sources (such as tracepoints). This means being able
to generate multiple overflows from a single 'event' as well
as support throttling.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/perf_counter.c

Simple merge