Re: [PATCH 00/12] perf_events: add support for sampling takenbranches (v2)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 11:14 -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:

> >> > Other than the few comments given it all looks good. My main worry is
> >> > the Intel only aspect, I'd really love for there to be another platform
> >> > that could implement at least part of this.

> There is a hardware branch buffer on all Itanium processors.
> You can find the description for the McKinley implementation
>  (Itanium2) branch buffer in section 10.3.9 from:
> http://download.intel.com/design/Itanium2/manuals/25111003.pdf


Yeah, I knew Itanic has it, but one its sinking (and doesn't have perf
support), and two its still Intel ;-)


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