On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 18:25 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>         This patch fixes the remapped counter support such that it now works
>         on X86 processors.

(could you please not add all this whitespace in front? and make sure
 it's no wider than 70 chars)

Also, I wouldn't say it fixes it, it's currently not broken, its plain
not implemented. So this patch adds support for rdpmc.

>         For other architectures, e.g., PPC, SPARC, assuming they do offer the 
> ability
>         to read counts directly from user space, all that is needed is a 
> couple of new
>         arch specific functions:

Power already supports this, so if you just broke this Paul is going to
be unhappy.

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