Re: [PATCH 3/7] perf_counter: ioctl(PERF_COUNTER_IOC_RESET)

[Corey Ashford]

Hi Peter,

Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> +static void perf_counter_reset(struct perf_counter *counter)
> +{
> +	atomic_set(&counter->count, 0);
> +}
> +


Thanks for posting a patch for this issue.

As Ingo said, I think the hardware counter needs to be reset as well as 
the value saved in the perf_counter struct.


Regards,

- Corey

Corey Ashford
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxx


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