Re: [PATCH] perf_counter: remove the event config bitfields

[Paul Mackerras]

Peter Zijlstra writes:

> Paul, I noticed you assign the raw config without mask, is that ok?

Yep.  That doesn't get assigned directly to a hardware register; it
undergoes further processing first, which just pulls out the bits it
needs.  (It's not used directly because the hardware has a couple of
registers that configure all the counters at once, rather than a
configuration register per counter.)

Paul.
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