From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758293Ab1DYNls (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:41:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23141 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758145Ab1DYNlr (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:41:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:41:26 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , "x86@kernel.org" , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf, x86: Add PERF_COUNT_HW_NMI_WATCHDOG event Message-ID: <20110425134126.GB20887@redhat.com> References: <1303398203-2918-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <1303398203-2918-5-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> <20110422081838.GA24011@elte.hu> <1303462476.2035.215.camel@laptop> <1303465546.2035.224.camel@laptop> <4DB19B80.5000900@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DB19B80.5000900@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:15:12PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On 04/22/2011 01:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > ... > > > > Right, so the idea is that one event (concept) has two (or more) > > representations in the config space. And when scheduling the events we > > find we have a conflict, we simply try the alternative encoding(s). > > > ... > > Yeah, Peter, I think it's quite possible to use alternative encoding for p4 as well, > not sure tho if some "generalized" approach for all perf would be applied to p4 but > we can make event "aliases" being per-pmu eventually. > > So Ingo, drop this patch then ;) Eek, when can you have an alternate patch for this Cyril? I just want to make sure this can still eventually find its way into 2.6.40. Cheers, Don