Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: check ucode before disabling PEBS on SandyBridge

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 18:28 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> >  static int apply_microcode_on_target(int cpu)
> >  {
> >        struct apply_microcode_ctx ctx = { .err = 0 };
> >        int ret;
> >
> > +       ret = microcode_notifier_check(ucode_cpu_info + cpu);
> > +       if (ret)
> > +               return ret;
> > +
> >        ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, apply_microcode_local, &ctx, 1);
> >        if (!ret)
> >                ret = ctx.err;
> >
> > +       if (!ret)
> > +               microcode_notifier_done();
> > +
> I suspect you want to do this here and not after the update() has completed over
> all CPU (for_each_online_cpu()), because you want to prevent a race condition
> with perf_event users trying PEBS at the same time. If not, then why not move
> the callback after all the smp_call() are done. 

Because not all callers are in a for_each_cpu loop. For instance, see
the reload_store() thing.

Also, since the ucode is per-cpu and not machine wide, a per-cpu
callback makes more sense.