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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:50:27 +1100
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_counter: remove the event config bitfields
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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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