Re: [PATCH v2] perf/x86: Fix HO/GO counting with SVM disabled

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 18:05 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Once northbridge counters are implemented for Fam15h this check can go
> away again. 

Nope, northbridge on fam15 is completely disjoint from the regular pmu
and should thus be a separate driver.

The only reason the old amd driver has them both is because how they
shared the registers so there is a shared resource to manage.
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