Re: [PATCH 7/7] perf: kill perf_event_context::pmu

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:56:51PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Another option would be to have a context per-pmu. Each context's pmu
> pointer would be valid, and (other than the case of software events) it
> doesn't make sense to place events from disparate PMUs into the same
> group anyway. Then you don't need a fixed sized pmu list in the context
> or some arcane list structs.

No it does make sense; for example on hardware that doesn't have a PMI
you can create a software event + hardware event group and have the
software interrupt read the hardware counter and still get 'some'
sampling.
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