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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	zheng.z.yan@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add generic Intel uncore PMU support
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:47:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE3A495.1030008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120621154334.05a74517.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On 06/21/2012 03:43 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Regardless of that, we have some head-scratching to do:
> 
> 
> #define UNCORE_PMU_HRTIMER_INTERVAL       (60 * NSEC_PER_SEC)
> 
> and
> 
> #define NSEC_PER_SEC    1000000000L
> 
> and 60 billion doesn't fit in 32 bits.  So do we fix the
> perf_event_intel_uncore.c callsites?  Or do we fix the
> UNCORE_PMU_HRTIMER_INTERVAL definition?  Or do we fix the NSEC_PER_SEC
> definition?
> 
> I'm thinking perhaps the latter.  What *is* the type of a nanosecond in
> Linux?  include/linux/ktime.h is pretty insistent that it is u64.  If
> so, NSEC_PER_SEC should logically have type ULL.  But changing both its
> size and signedness is a pretty big change.

We could change the size only.  The range from 9223372036.854775808 to
18446744073.709551615 seconds (292-584 years) isn't really that significant.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-21 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-15  6:31 [PATCH V6 0/13] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 01/13] perf: Export perf_assign_events Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:49   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Export perf_assign_events() tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 02/13] perf: Avoid race between cpu hotplug and installing event Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:50   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 03/13] perf: Allow pmu to choose cpu on which to install event Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:51   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Allow the PMU driver to choose the CPU on which to install events tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 04/13] perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:52   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Introduce perf_pmu_migrate_context() tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 05/13] perf: Generic intel uncore support Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:54   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add generic Intel uncore PMU support tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-21 22:43     ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-21 22:46       ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-21 22:47       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-06-21 22:51         ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-21 23:10           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 23:15             ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-21 23:18               ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-21 23:22                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-06-21 23:29                   ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-22  8:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-24  3:27   ` [PATCH V6 05/13] perf: Generic intel uncore support Stephane Eranian
2012-07-24  6:00     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-07-24  6:21       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 06/13] perf: Add Nehalem and Sandy Bridge " Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15 15:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 16:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 18:43     ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-15 17:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 18:46     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-16 12:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-16 12:52         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-18  9:23         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-19  1:39           ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15 17:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-15 18:47     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-16 12:46       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:55   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add Intel Nehalem and Sandy Bridge uncore PMU support tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 07/13] perf: Generic pci uncore device support Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15 16:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-18  3:06     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-18  7:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-20 10:56   ` [tip:perf/core] perf: Add generic PCI uncore PMU " tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 16:39     ` [PATCH] perf, x86: Fix section mismatch in uncore_pci_init() Robert Richter
2012-06-25 11:40       ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Fix section mismatch in uncore_pci_init( ) tip-bot for Robert Richter
2012-08-13 17:10   ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf, x86: Fix uncore_types_exit section mismatch tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 08/13] perf: Add Sandy Bridge-EP uncore support Yan, Zheng
2012-06-15 17:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-18  1:47     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-18  7:42       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-18 15:28   ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-19  0:59     ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-19  7:18       ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-19  8:17         ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:56   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Add Intel Nehalem and " tip-bot for Yan, Zheng
2012-07-22 19:37   ` [PATCH V6 08/13] perf: Add " Stephane Eranian
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 09/13] perf, tool: Use data struct for arg passing in event parse function Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:57   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/tool: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 10/13] perf, tool: Make the event parser reentrantable Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:58   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/tool: Make the event parser re-entrant tip-bot for Zheng Yan
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 11/13] perf, tool: Add support to reuse event grammar to parse out terms Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 10:59   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/tool: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 12/13] perf, tool: Add pmu event alias support Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 11:00   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/tool: Add PMU " tip-bot for Zheng Yan
2012-06-15  6:31 ` [PATCH V6 13/13] perf, tool: Add automated test for pure terms parsing Yan, Zheng
2012-06-20 11:01   ` [tip:perf/core] perf/tool: " tip-bot for Jiri Olsa
2012-06-20 16:01 ` [PATCH V6 0/13] perf: Intel uncore pmu counting support Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-21  2:34   ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-21  8:10     ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-21  8:43       ` Yan, Zheng
2012-06-21  9:13         ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-21 11:40           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-21 11:48             ` Stephane Eranian
2012-06-21 13:08               ` Yan, Zheng

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