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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2013-06-28 18:15:16 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-07-01 11:50:10 +1000 |
| commit | 330a1eb7775ba876dbd46b9885556e57f705e3d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 138693772ff043ec23e335a1ef42df7a7d5707ba /Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX | |
| parent | 2ac138ca21ad26c988ce7c91d27327f85beb7519 (diff) | |
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powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s
Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.
EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.
Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX index dd9e9280..05026ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ hvcs.txt - IBM "Hypervisor Virtual Console Server" Installation Guide mpc52xx.txt - Linux 2.6.x on MPC52xx family +pmu-ebb.txt + - Description of the API for using the PMU with Event Based Branches. qe_firmware.txt - describes the layout of firmware binaries for the Freescale QUICC Engine and the code that parses and uploads the microcode therein. |
