From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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, 6 Jun 2012 07:12:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120606141247.GD28225@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338979188.2749.92.camel@twins>
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:39:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 17:56 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > cycles:p uses an special cycles encoding by default. However that is not
> > architectural, so it can only be used when the CPU is known
> > (it already caused problems on Sandy Bridge). It may or may not work
> > on future CPUs.
> >
> > So make it opt-in only. Right now I enabled it on Core2, Nehalem, Westmere
> > and not on Sandy-Bridge or Atom.
>
> No.
What do you mean? Are you claiming it's architectural?
> Also, c0 is a PEBS capable event on Atom just fine.
Ok can enable it there.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 14:12 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 [this message]
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
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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