[PPC64] (resend) Functions to reserve performance monitor hardware

2005-02-09 Thread David Gibson
Andrew, here's a resend of this patch. My earlier version had a few stupid errors which should be corrected in this one. Please apply. The PPC64 interrupt code includes a hook to call when an exception from the performance monitor unit occurs. However, there's no way of reserving the hook

[PPC64] (resend) Functions to reserve performance monitor hardware

2005-02-09 Thread David Gibson
Andrew, here's a resend of this patch. My earlier version had a few stupid errors which should be corrected in this one. Please apply. The PPC64 interrupt code includes a hook to call when an exception from the performance monitor unit occurs. However, there's no way of reserving the hook