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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-29 09:02:15 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-29 09:02:20 +0100
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Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5. 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().
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