From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:21:10 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perf counters: implement PERF_COUNT_CPU_CLOCK X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc1~383^2~575 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5c92d12411dfe5f0f3d1b1c1e2f756245e6f7249;p=pandora-kernel.git perf counters: implement PERF_COUNT_CPU_CLOCK Impact: add new perf-counter type The 'CPU clock' counter counts the amount of CPU clock time that is elapsing, in nanoseconds. (regardless of how much of it the task is spending on a CPU executing) This counter type is a Linux kernel based abstraction, it is available even if the hardware does not support native hardware performance counters. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed