Re: [PATCH] oprofile: Allow setting EDGE/INV/CMASK for Intel counter events

[Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>]

On 16.03.11 11:27:57, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I would like to write the actual value back so that userland may read
> > it:
> > 
> > 	counter_config->extra &= (ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_INV|
> >                          ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_EDGE|
> >                          ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_CMASK);
> > 	val |= counter_config->extra;
> > 
> > The value will not be updated emmediately but at least after profiling
> > was started.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > 
> > As an alternative, maybe we better put this extra bits in the
> > unit_mask, e.g. in bits [31:16] of the unit mask for bits [31:16] of
> > PerfEvtSel? Then, we simply could use the current userland to set it
> > up.
> 
> We can't anyways, it doesn't support it.

Shouldn't something like the follwing work (assuming the umask table
is modified)?

 opcontrol --event SOME_EVENT:100000:0x00800000 ...

(setting the INV flag)

-Robert

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