perf_counter: counter overflow limit
Provide means to auto-disable the counter after 'n' overflow events.
Create the counter with hw_event.disabled = 1, and then issue an
ioctl(fd, PREF_COUNTER_IOC_REFRESH, n); to set the limit and enable
the counter.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094518.083139737@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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