Re: [PATCH -tip] perf, x86, Pentium4: Add RAW events verification

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 01:21:20PM +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 02:23 +0800, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Implements verification of
> > 
> > - Bits of ESCR EventMask field (meaningful bits in field are hardware
> >   predefined and others bits should be set to zero)
> > 
> > - INSTR_COMPLETED event (it is available on predefined cpu model only)
> > 
> > - Thread shared events (they should be guarded by "perf_event_paranoid"
> >   sysctl due to security reason). The side effect of this action is
> >   that PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES become a "paranoid" general event.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
> > CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
> > CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> > CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > ---
... 
> I have tested this patch on a 16cpus Netburst server.
> The predefined hardware/cache events work well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lin Ming
> 

Thanks a lot, Ming!