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    powerpc/perf: e500 support · a1110654
    Scott Wood authored
    This implements perf_event support for the Freescale embedded performance
    monitor, based on the existing perf_event.c that supports server/classic
    chips.
    
    Some limitations:
    - Performance monitor interrupts are regular EE interrupts, and thus you
      can't profile places with interrupts disabled.  We may want to implement
      soft IRQ-disabling, with perfmon interrupts exempted and treated as NMIs.
    - When trying to schedule multiple event groups at once, and using
      restricted events, situations could arise where scheduling fails even
      though it would be possible.  Consider three groups, each with two events.
      One group has restricted events, the others don't.  The two non-restricted
      groups are scheduled, then one is removed, which happens to occupy the two
      counters that can't do restricted events.  The remaining non-restricted
      group will not be moved to the non-restricted-capable counters to make
      room if the restricted group tries to be scheduled.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
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