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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] perf, x86: Don't assume the alternative cycles encoding is architectural
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:53:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338994385.2749.130.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120606144952.GK28225@tassilo.jf.intel.com>

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 07:49 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Is this for the intel_pmu or for the core_pmu?
> 
> > +     .pebs_aliases           = intel_pebs_aliases_core2,

intel_pmu, we don't actually support PEBS on first gen. core I think.

> In any case since the code later does
> 
>         version = eax.split.version_id;
>         if (version < 2)
>                 x86_pmu = core_pmu;
>         else
>                 x86_pmu = intel_pmu;
> 
> so core_pmu would be active even without model check, which would
> be still wrong.

By not setting pebs_aliases for core_pmu,

> So your patch would fix the problem iff you only fill in the pebs_aliases
> in the model number switch for known Core model numbers.

+       if (event->attr.precise_ip && x86_pmu.pebs_aliases)
+               x86_pmu.pebs_aliases(event);

Never happens, and we're happy again.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06  0:56 [PATCH 1/5] perf, x86: Don't assume the alternative cycles encoding is architectural Andi Kleen
2012-06-06  0:56 ` [PATCH 2/5] perf, x86: Don't assume there can be only 4 PEBS events Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 15:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 16:10     ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 17:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 16:17   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Don' t " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2012-06-06  0:56 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf, x86: Check LBR format capability Andi Kleen
2012-06-06  4:29   ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 10:40   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:14     ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:37         ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06  0:56 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add rdpmcl() Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 16:16   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Andi Kleen
2012-06-06  0:56 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf, x86: Prefer RDPMC over RDMSR for reading counters Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 10:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:16     ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:33         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-06 14:38           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:41         ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:45           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 10:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] perf, x86: Don't assume the alternative cycles encoding is architectural Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:12   ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:14     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:23       ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:35           ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:42             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 14:49               ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 14:53                 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-06-06 16:08                   ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-06 17:10                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-06 17:48                       ` Andi Kleen

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