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    perf counters: hw driver API · 621a01ea
    Ingo Molnar authored
    Impact: restructure code, introduce hw_ops driver abstraction
    
    Introduce this abstraction to handle counter details:
    
     struct hw_perf_counter_ops {
    	void (*hw_perf_counter_enable)	(struct perf_counter *counter);
    	void (*hw_perf_counter_disable)	(struct perf_counter *counter);
    	void (*hw_perf_counter_read)	(struct perf_counter *counter);
     };
    
    This will be useful to support assymetric hw details, and it will also
    be useful to implement "software counters". (Counters that count kernel
    managed sw events such as pagefaults, context-switches, wall-clock time
    or task-local time.)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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