From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757659Ab0EYNff (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 09:35:35 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57936 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756263Ab0EYNfd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 09:35:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_events: fix event scheduling issues introduced by transactional API (take 2) From: Peter Zijlstra To: eranian@google.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net, fweisbec@gmail.com, acme@infradead.org, ming.m.lin@intel.com, perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net, eranian@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4bfbceef.e495e30a.5dae.61b6@mx.google.com> References: <4bfbceef.e495e30a.5dae.61b6@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:35:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1274794518.5882.1280.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:20 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > With this patch, you can now overcommit the PMU even with pinned > system-wide events present and still get valid counts. Does this patch differ from the one you send earlier?