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    perf_counter: powerpc: set sample enable bit for marked instruction events · f708223d
    Paul Mackerras authored
    Impact: enable access to hardware feature
    
    POWER processors have the ability to "mark" a subset of the instructions
    and provide more detailed information on what happens to the marked
    instructions as they flow through the pipeline.  This marking is
    enabled by the "sample enable" bit in MMCRA, and there are
    synchronization requirements around setting and clearing the bit.
    
    This adds logic to the processor-specific back-ends so that they know
    which events relate to marked instructions and set the sampling enable
    bit if any event that we want to put on the PMU is a marked instruction
    event.  It also adds logic to the generic powerpc code to do the
    necessary synchronization if that bit is set.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <18908.31930.1024.228867@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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