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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, "mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Add workaround for MEM_*_RETIRED errata BV98
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:32:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502073252.GG7521@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABPqkBS7FxoT1fioe_VdBMcLAdZtfwRiMmSMocSY5TB3QAyPQQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:21:55PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, Andi's patch fails to correct the problem though
> >> it is the right approach. As he said, the problem is unfortunately
> >
> > perf stat -a / record -a / top will work.
> >
> But it does not for perf stat -a. Look at my example, run it on your machine.


Since nobody seems interested in explaining the exact nature of the hardware
failure I think the best thing we can do is simply blacklist these events.

Broken hardware is broken after all -- we should jump through too many hoops
pretending its not.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 18:45 Andi Kleen
2013-05-01  9:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-01  9:56   ` Andi Kleen
2013-05-01 10:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-01 11:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-01 18:13       ` Stephane Eranian
2013-05-01 19:13         ` Andi Kleen
2013-05-01 19:21           ` Stephane Eranian
2013-05-02  7:32             ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-05-06 17:41               ` Stephane Eranian
2013-05-06 19:00                 ` Peter Zijlstra

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