Re: [PATCH 9/9] perf/x86: add syfs entry to disable HT bug workaround

Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-05T12:50:33Z

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On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:16:01PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On 5 June 2014 11:19, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> > How would you know that you have a uniform workload from inside
> > the kernel?
>
> That's what I'm asking you ;-)
>
> >> Does cpu_sibling_map not give you some indication of whether HT is
> >> enabled? I think the topology_thread_cpumask() is the topology API for
> >> that. But I could most definitely be wrong. Hopefully someone on the
> >> Cc list will know.
> >>
> > Remember trying some of that, but when perf_event is initialized, those
> > masks are not yet setup properly.
>
> Oh, bummer.

So we init perf very early to get nmi-watchdog up and running, but
there's no reason you cannot register a second initcall later and flip
the switch from it there.

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