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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] perf/core: Share an event with multiple cgroups
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:43:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YH8g2EPn+2cvN3JA@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9d7chaxr4o3iY1Y+Z9W0C5rZ7gazvUA2U+Uq_L6CHaHsFqGA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 03:37:11AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 7:28 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > You forgot NMI.
> 
> Thanks for your explanation.  Maybe I'm missing something but
> this event is basically for counting and doesn't allow sampling.
> Do you say it's affected by other sampling events?  Note that
> it's not reading from the PMU here, what it reads is a snapshot
> of last pmu->read(event) afaik.

Even !sampling events will trigger NMI to deal with short hardware
counters rolling over. But yes, !sampling can also be updated from NMI
by other events if they're in a group etc..

Basically, always assume NMI/PMI can happen.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-13 15:53 [PATCH v3 0/2] perf core: Sharing events with multiple cgroups Namhyung Kim
2021-04-13 15:53 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] perf/core: Share an event " Namhyung Kim
2021-04-15 14:51   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-15 23:48     ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16  9:26       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-16  9:29         ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-16 10:19           ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16 10:27           ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-16 11:22             ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16 11:59               ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-16 12:19                 ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16 13:39                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-05-09  7:13                 ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16 10:18         ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-16  9:49     ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-20 10:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-20 18:37         ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-20 18:43           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-04-20  8:34     ` Stephane Eranian
2021-04-20  9:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-20 11:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-21 19:37         ` Namhyung Kim
2021-05-03 21:53           ` Namhyung Kim
2021-04-13 15:53 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] perf/core: Support reading group events with shared cgroups Namhyung Kim

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