From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:29:32 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf_counter: Fix software counters for fast moving event sources X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc6~19^2~24 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b4b6658e152ed4568cfff48175d93645df081d1;p=pandora-kernel.git perf_counter: Fix software counters for fast moving event sources 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 Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed