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2010-05-17	ARM: 6064/1: pmu: register IRQs at runtime	Will Deacon
	The current PMU infrastructure for ARM requires that the IRQs for the PMU device are fixed at compile time and are selected based on the ARCH_ or MACH_ flags. This has the disadvantage of tying the Kernel down to a particular board as far as profiling is concerned. This patch replaces the compile-time IRQ registration with a runtime mechanism which allows the IRQs to be registered with the framework as a platform_device. A further advantage of this change is that there is scope for registering different types of performance counters in the future by changing the id of the platform_device and attaching different resources to it. Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-12	ARM: 5899/2: arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters	Jamie Iles
	To add support for perf events and to allow the hardware counters to be shared with oprofile, we need a way to reserve access to the pmu (performance monitor unit). Platforms with PMU interrupts should register the interrupts in arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>