Phil, On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Philip J. Mucci wrote: > > In debugging some64 bit issues on the MIPS, I've noticed that reg_addr > is unsigned long. On 64 bit systems with 32 bit API's, this can cause a > truncation. I have PMC registers in 64 bit space, but when compiled with > a 32 bit API cannot fit in this field. I might suggest we extend to > unsigned long long. > The reg_addr is for information only. It is not used to communicate with the kernel API. But it could be used to match against the PMU description entries in /sys/kernel/perfmon/pmu_desc/pm*/addr which in your case would be 64-bit.
I will make the change. Thanks. -- -Stephane _______________________________________________ perfmon mailing list [email protected] http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/perfmon/
