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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/design.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/design.txt b/tools/perf/design.txt index f1946d107b10..fdd42a824c98 100644 --- a/tools/perf/design.txt +++ b/tools/perf/design.txt @@ -455,3 +455,6 @@ will need at least this: If your architecture does have hardware capabilities, you can override the weak stub hw_perf_event_init() to register hardware counters. + +Architectures that have d-cache aliassing issues, such as Sparc and ARM, +should select PERF_USE_VMALLOC in order to avoid these for perf mmap(). |