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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-06 14:21:50 +0200 |
commit | 906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a (patch) | |
tree | 598b30d08f5ca8df1e00abc295b120fa1bd2c2e2 /tools/perf/design.txt | |
parent | e13dbd7d75d1ecc315c6e3071b3c4e8fba4f6bec (diff) | |
download | linux-906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a.tar.gz |
perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps. These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this. However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular allocations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index f1946d107b10..fdd42a824c98 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -455,3 +455,6 @@ will need at least this: If your architecture does have hardware capabilities, you can override the weak stub hw_perf_event_init() to register hardware counters. + +Architectures that have d-cache aliassing issues, such as Sparc and ARM, +should select PERF_USE_VMALLOC in order to avoid these for perf mmap(). |