On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 12:57:17PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: > > > On Thursday 05 November 2015 06:37 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 02:16:15AM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote: > >> Second patch updates struct arch_misc_reg for arch/powerpc with pmu > >> registers > >> and adds offsetof macro for the same. It extends perf_reg_value() > >> to use reg idx to decide on struct to return value from. > > Why; what's in those regs? > > Was out and did not have access to mail, so missed to respond in time. > > In current implementation of patch 2, have added > few pmu control/status and counter registers, > which give additional information about the PMU context > for the sample.
Yes, I saw that, you still haven't answered the question though. What is in those regs? Why is exposing that information like this the best option. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
