Stephane Eranian d76a0812ac perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks ... In certain situations, the kernel may need to stop and start the same event rapidly. The current PMU callbacks do not distinguish between stop and release (i.e., stop + free the resource). Thus, a counter may be released, then it will be immediately re-acquired. Event scheduling will again take place with no guarantee to assign the same counter. On some processors, this may event yield to failure to assign the event back due to competion between cores. This patch is adding a new pair of callback to stop and restart a counter without actually release the underlying counter resource. On stop, the counter is stopped, its values saved and that's it. On start, the value is reloaded and counter is restarted (on x86, actual restart is delayed until perf_enable()). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ added fallback to ->enable/->disable for all other PMUs fixed x86_pmu_start() to call x86_pmu.enable() merged __x86_pmu_disable into x86_pmu_stop() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b703875.0a04d00a.7896.ffffb824@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>		2010-02-26 10:56:53 +01:00
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