Hello Phil,

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Philip Mucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Stefane,
>
>  A while ago you clarified the usage of start vs. restore in certain
> scenarios, usually having to do when one architecture has a global enable
> bit vs that of event-only enabling in others.
>
>  On the SiCortex architecture, we actually have different types for each of
> the different PMU's.
>
>  My question now, is oriented around, whether pfm_arch_start() is guaranteed
> to be called ONCE for every EVENTSET or just one per thread. In the case
> when multiplexing, one eventset may have PMU1 events and the other may have
> PMU2 events. If PMU2 needs the global enable bit set, pfm_arch_start will
> never catch it as it gets called with the eventset for PMU1.
>
pfm_arch_start() is called each time a set is activated. That could be
on pfm_start()
for the initial set or on set switches in pfm_switch_sets().

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