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perf_counter: powerpc: use u64 for event codes internally

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Although the perf_counter API allows 63-bit raw event codes,
internally in the powerpc back-end we had been using 32-bit
event codes.  This expands them to 64 bits so that we can add
bits for specifying threshold start/stop events and instruction
sampling modes later.

This also corrects the return value of can_go_on_limited_pmc;
we were returning an event code rather than just a 0/1 value in
some circumstances. That didn't particularly matter while event
codes were 32-bit, but now that event codes are 64-bit it
might, so this fixes it.

[ Impact: extend PowerPC perfcounter interfaces from u32 to u64 ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18955.36874.472452.353104@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras 2009-05-14 13:29:14 +10:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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