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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	eranian@gmail.com, "Meadows,
	Lawrence F" <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf, Add support for Xeon-Phi PMU
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:42:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120925114225.GF14490@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348572758.3881.24.camel@twins>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:32:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 13:03 -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > One additional complication:  some of the cache events map to 
> > event "0".  This causes problems because the generic events code
> > assumes "0" means not-available.  I'm not sure the best way to address
> > that problem. 
> 
> For all except P4 we could remap the 0 value to -2, that has all high
> bits set (like the -1) which aren't used by hardware.
> 
> P4 is stuffing two registers in the 64bit config space and actually has
> them all in use I think.. Cyrill?

Yeah, we use almost all 64 bits in config. I tried to describe the bitmaps
in perf_event_p4.h (see Notes on internal configuration of ESCR+CCCR tuples).

Guys, letme re-read this whole mail thread first since I have no clue
what this remapping about ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-20 17:03 [PATCH 1/1] perf, Add support for Xeon-Phi PMU Vince Weaver
2012-09-24 17:48 ` Meadows, Lawrence F
2012-09-25 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-25 11:42   ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2012-09-25 11:51     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-09-25 12:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-25 12:05       ` stephane eranian
2012-09-25 12:22         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-09-25 12:23           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-09-25 13:27       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2012-09-25 14:45         ` Vince Weaver
2012-09-25 14:53           ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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