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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	syzbot+370a6b0f11867bf13515@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix breakpoint overcommit issue
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:50:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190716135023.GD3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190716134219.GB4000@lenoir>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 03:42:20PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:47:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:53:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > I wish we could use event->ctx->task instead but on pmu::init() there
> > > > is no ctx yet (we could pass the task in parameter though) 
> > > 
> > > Right, that should be fairly easy.
> > > 
> > > > and on event->destroy() it's TASK_TOMBSTONE and retrieving the task at
> > > > that time would be non trivial.
> > > 
> > > Well, right, we can maybe make TOMBSTONE be the LSB instead of the whole
> > > word, then we can recover the task pointer... *yuck* though.
> > 
> > Something like the attached, completely untested patches.
> > 
> > I didn't do the hw_breakpoint bit, because I got lost in that, but this
> > basically provides what you asked for I think.
> > 
> 
> Thanks they look good! I can take them and work on top if you like.

please do.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-16 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-09 13:48 [PATCH 0/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix breakpoint overcommit issue Frederic Weisbecker
2019-07-09 13:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf: Allow a pmu to pin context Frederic Weisbecker
2019-07-09 13:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf/hw_breakpoints: Pin perf contexts of breakpoints Frederic Weisbecker
2019-07-10 14:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] perf/hw_breakpoint: Fix breakpoint overcommit issue Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-10 15:34   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-07-11 10:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-15 12:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-16 13:42         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-07-16 13:50           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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