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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] perf, intel: Don't touch MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR from NMI context
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:11:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1347538265.15764.129.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBQk2TsnyZF52rvcH9wKO=P7=RAgTTjYPQjeAjOFUob4_g@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 13:49 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Should be, though it is pretty ugly to stash all of this in the
> put/get constraints.

Agreed, I almost added two extra functions for it but when I went to
look at where to call them I ended up next to get/put constraints.

> I will run some tests.
> 
> I wonder what this does when you come in to get/put with a fake cpuc. You don't
> want to perturb the local lbr which may be in use. 

Fake cpu will never set ->alloc and thus intel_pmu_has_lbr() should fail
and we don't do anything.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-13 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-12 16:22 [RFC][PATCH] perf, intel: Don't touch MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR from NMI context Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 16:42 ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 17:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 17:45     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 18:00       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 18:17         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 18:50           ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 18:52             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-12 19:00               ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-12 17:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-09-12 17:41   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 10:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-13 11:49   ` Stephane Eranian
2012-09-13 12:11     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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