Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf-events: Add support for supplementary event registers

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 20:25 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 08:09:14PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > > +	int 				percore_used;
> > > +	struct intel_percore		*per_core;
> > 
> > Either per_core != NULL implies percore_used or it should be state
> > inside the struct.
> 
> It does not, I'll clarify.

Can we make it so, that is, move that int inside the intel_percore
struct?

> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
> > > @@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
> > >  #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL
> > >  
> > > +struct intel_percore {
> > > +	raw_spinlock_t lock;
> > > +	int ref;
> > > +	u64 config;
> > > +	unsigned extra_reg;
> > > +	u64 extra_config;
> > > +};
> > > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct intel_percore, intel_percore);
> > 
> > Please dynamically allocate these when needed, just like the AMD
> > north-bridge structure.
> 
> Fully dynamic is difficult because the topology discovery does not 
> really handle that nicely.
> 
> I can allocate at boot, but it will not save a lot of memory
> (just one entry per core)
> 
> To be honest I would prefer not to do that change, are you sure
> you want it?

Hrm,.. but we only need to do this on nhm/wsm init, we already have code
detecting the cpu model. And I'm quite sure you know where to poke to
see if HT is enabled.