Re: [PATCH] add X86_FEATURE_PEBS and detection

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Oct 16 2006 - 06:16:17 EST


On Friday 06 October 2006 11:10, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is a patch (used by perfmon2) to detect the presence of the
> Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) feature for Intel 64-bit processors.
> The patch also adds the cpu_has_pebs macro.
>
> IMPORTANT: you need to have the X86_FEATURE_DS renaming patch applied first!

Added both thanks. I suppose similar i386 patches will be needed too.

If you have patches that depend on each other please number
them in the future.

-Andi
>
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