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From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: eranian@hpl.hp.com, oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net,
	wcohen@redhat.com, perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, levon@movementarian.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Separate the performance counter allocation from the LAPIC NMI watchdog
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:18:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070620131829.GA17256@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706201431.44014.ak@suse.de>

On 2007.06.20 14:31:43 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 12:35:56 Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> > The performance counter allocator is tied to the LAPIC NMI watchdog,
> 
> That's not true. It's completely independent. It just happens to be in
> the same file, but it has no direct functional ties to the watchdog.

The allocator relies on the wd_ops structure, which is only initialized
if the LAPIC NMI watchdog is enabled. If it is not enabled, the
functions that convert from absolute perfctr/evntsel addresses to
offsets from the respective base address break, and always return 0.

> > Fix the performance counter allocator by making it independent of the
> > LAPIC NMI watchdog. This also fixes a bug in the LAPIC NMI watchdog
> > which allocated the wrong performance counter on CPUs with PerfMon
> > support.
> 
> Combining code movement with functional fixes makes it impossible
> to review properly. Don't do that please.

Ok.

Björn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12 15:02 OProfile issues Stephane Eranian
2007-06-12 18:37 ` Chris Wright
2007-06-12 18:38 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-06-12 19:07 ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-13  1:41   ` [PATCH] Separate performance counter reservation from nmi watchdog Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-13 16:46     ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-18  9:52       ` Stephane Eranian
2007-06-18 10:32         ` Björn Steinbrink
     [not found]           ` <11823357571842-git-send-email->
2007-06-20 10:35             ` [PATCH 1/2] Separate the performance counter allocation from the LAPIC NMI watchdog Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-20 10:35               ` [PATCH 2/2] Finish separation of the performance counter allocator from the " Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-20 12:31               ` [PATCH 1/2] Separate the performance counter allocation from the LAPIC " Andi Kleen
2007-06-20 12:49                 ` [perfmon] " Stephane Eranian
2007-06-20 13:01                   ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-20 18:33                     ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-20 18:34                       ` [PATCH 1/2] Always probe the " Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-25 19:09                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-25 19:36                           ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-25 20:01                             ` Stephane Eranian
2007-06-25 20:36                               ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-25 21:04                               ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-25 21:06                             ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-20 18:35                       ` [PATCH 2/2] Reserve the right performance counter for the Intel PerfMon " Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-20 21:59                       ` [perfmon] Re: [PATCH 1/2] Separate the performance counter allocation from the LAPIC " Stephane Eranian
2007-06-21  8:36                         ` Stephane Eranian
2007-06-22  7:13                           ` Björn Steinbrink
2007-06-22 10:02                             ` Stephane Eranian
2007-06-20 13:18                 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2007-06-20 10:49           ` [PATCH 0/2] Performance counter allocator separation Björn Steinbrink

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