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    powerpc/perf_counter: Add generic support for POWER-family PMU hardware · 4574910e
    Paul Mackerras authored
    This provides the architecture-specific functions needed to access
    PMU hardware on the 64-bit PowerPC processors.  It has been designed
    for the IBM POWER family (POWER 4/4+/5/5+/6 and PPC970) but will
    hopefully also suit other 64-bit PowerPC machines (although probably
    not Cell given how different it is in this area).  This doesn't
    include back-ends for any specific processors.
    
    This implements a system which allows back-ends to express the
    constraints that their hardware has on what events can be counted
    simultaneously.  The constraints are expressed as a 64-bit mask +
    64-bit value for each event, and the encoding is capable of
    expressing the constraints arising from having a set of multiplexers
    feeding an event bus, with some events being available through
    multiple multiplexer settings, such as we get on POWER4 and PPC970.
    Furthermore, the back-end can supply alternative event codes for
    each event, and the constraint checking code will try all possible
    combinations of alternative event codes to try to find a combination
    that will fit.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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