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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2009-09-21 16:08:49 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-06 14:21:50 +0200
commit906010b2134e14a2e377decbadd357b3d0ab9c6a (patch)
tree598b30d08f5ca8df1e00abc295b120fa1bd2c2e2 /tools/perf/design.txt
parente13dbd7d75d1ecc315c6e3071b3c4e8fba4f6bec (diff)
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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@@ -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().