From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754175Ab3JCJrp (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Oct 2013 05:47:45 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:15782 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753855Ab3JCJrm (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Oct 2013 05:47:42 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,1024,1371106800"; d="scan'208";a="410872795" Message-ID: <524D3ED8.2030109@intel.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:54:32 +0300 From: Adrian Hunter Organization: Intel Finland Oy, Registered Address: PL 281, 00181 Helsinki, Business Identity Code: 0357606 - 4, Domiciled in Helsinki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Zijlstra CC: Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern , Frederic Weisbecker , Mike Galbraith , Namhyung Kim , Paul Mackerras , Stephane Eranian Subject: Re: [BUG] perf tests: Test converting perf time to TSC References: <20131002132308.GB20396@krava.brq.redhat.com> <524C23D3.6020300@intel.com> <20131003081737.GB993@krava.brq.redhat.com> <524D2E06.5020801@intel.com> <20131003085625.GA3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20131003085807.GO26785@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> In-Reply-To: <20131003085807.GO26785@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/10/13 11:58, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 10:56:25AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >>> No the ABI is broken in that case - better to crash. >> >> No; neither case should crash. > > OK; previously we would report cap_usr_time = 1 even though we might not > have written stuff into the fields; which would indeed explain the > crash. > > However; Jiri actually has the patch; as the code he posted had 'user' not > 'usr' Where do you see that?