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Commit 0a4e38e6 authored by Alexander Shishkin's avatar Alexander Shishkin Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf: Support high-order allocations for AUX space



Some pmus (such as BTS or Intel PT without multiple-entry ToPA capability)
don't support scatter-gather and will prefer larger contiguous areas for
their output regions.

This patch adds a new pmu capability to request higher order allocations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <kaixu.xia@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: kan.liang@intel.com
Cc: markus.t.metzger@intel.com
Cc: mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421237903-181015-4-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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