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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-11-18 22:19:03 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-11-18 22:19:03 -0800 |
| commit | 3505d1a9fd65e2d3e00827857b6795d9d8983658 (patch) | |
| tree | 941cfafdb57c427bb6b7ebf6354ee93b2a3693b5 /tools/perf/design.txt | |
| parent | dfef948ed2ba69cf041840b5e860d6b4e16fa0b1 (diff) | |
| parent | 66b00a7c93ec782d118d2c03bd599cfd041e80a1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3505d1a9fd65e2d3e00827857b6795d9d8983658.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c
drivers/staging/Kconfig
drivers/staging/Makefile
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
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diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index f1946d107b10..fdd42a824c98 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -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(). |