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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:11:06 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>, stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>,
       Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
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       Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 09/11] perf: Default PMU ops
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:09:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 20:07 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:34:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 17:03 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > > > You mean, if (!pmu->start_txn && pmu->pmu_enable) { /* install defaults
> > > > > */ } ?
> 
> > neglected pmu implementations shouldn't impact software pmus.
> 
> With the above and not providing ->pmu_enable you get that.


But we don't need to provide a pmu_enable for software events, right?