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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: Performance Events hangs with Intel P4 system
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 13:56:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100514115655.GA18069@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273834571.3530.82.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>


* Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> wrote:

> p4_event_bind::cntr is "unsigned char".
> But p4_next_cntr has return type of "int".
> So the explicit conversion is needed to get the correct result. 

> @@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static int p4_pmu_schedule_events(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc, int n, int *assign
>  		if (unlikely(escr_idx == -1))
>  			goto done;
>  
> -		if (hwc->idx != -1 && !p4_should_swap_ts(hwc->config, cpu)) {
> +		if (hwc->idx != (unsigned char)-1 && !p4_should_swap_ts(hwc->config, cpu)) {

That cast is _extremely_ ugly. Please fix the signedness of the types instead.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-14 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 22:17 Performance Events hangs with Intel P4 system Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14  3:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14  4:25   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14  4:29     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14  6:23       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14  7:52         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14  8:41           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 10:04             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 10:46               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 10:56               ` Lin Ming
2010-05-14 11:56                 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-05-14 12:07                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 13:52                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 14:52                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 16:22                       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14 16:28                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 16:36                           ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14 16:40                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 17:48                               ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14 18:01                                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-05-14 18:33                                   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-05-14 17:30                             ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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