What do we need to do to make LTTng and perf coexist peacefully in the kernel for ARM?

Registered by Steve Langasek

Discussion of LTTng reveals that on ARM, LTTng and perf make conflicting use of the cycle counter, each trying to work around hardware bugs. How do we fix this? Are there any other points where coordination/consolidation is needed?

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