Re: [PATCH] sparc: perf: Add support M7 processor

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From: David Ahern <david.ahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:19:23 -0600

> Only thing left in my queue is optimized versions of the ffs / fls
> families, but that patch is v9b specific, not M7.

Something faster than the popc thing in arch/sparc/lib/ffs.S?

Are you thinking of using "lzcnt"?  I wasn't impressed with the
performance of that instruction last time I played around with it.

> I'd like to put some attention on precise mode for perf counters; it
> just has not bubbled to the top.

That plus the backtrace deadlock thing we're discussing in another
thread, that bug is irritating because your pagefault_disable() change
should "just work".
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