overflow. Some architectures (e.g. powerpc) can supply more precise information about where the counter overflow occurred and the processor mode at that point. This introduces new functions, perf_misc_flags() and perf_instruction_pointer(), which arch code can override to provide more precise information if available. They have default implementations which are identical to the existing code. This also adds a new misc flag value, PERF_EVENT_MISC_HYPERVISOR, for the case where a counter overflow occurred in the hypervisor. We encode the processor mode in the 2 bits previously used to indicate user or kernel mode; the values for user and kernel mode are unchanged and hypervisor mode is indicated by both bits being set. [ Impact: generalize perfcounter core facilities ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo LKML-Reference: <18956.1272.818511.561835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar C