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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gleb@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Drop WARN on AMD lack of perfctrs
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 11:04:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130517090451.GQ19669@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130516213420.GB31393@pd.tnic>

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:34:20PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:55:58PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote:
> > iirc the reason was the different msr range that is switched on fam15h
> > with a different counter to counter msr offset of 2 instead of 1. The
> > code relies on the assumption that the msrs exist on that cpu. Thus
> > the warning if not. Also note that code may have changed in 3.10 in
> > that area.
> 
> Stupid question: why is check_hw_exists() *after* the vendor-specific
> counter detection code in init_hw_perf_events() even though it is
> supposed to check whether hardware is emulated?

Mostly so that check_hw_exists() doesn't need to know about the vendor
specifics like where the MSRs live, how many there are etc..



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-17  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-16 15:10 Josh Boyer
2013-05-16 17:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-16 17:55   ` Josh Boyer
2013-05-16 18:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-16 20:55       ` Robert Richter
2013-05-16 21:34         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-17  9:04           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-05-17  9:16             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-17  9:27               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-17  9:45                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-17 10:36                   ` Robert Richter
2013-05-17 10:57                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-21  8:56                       ` Robert Richter
2013-05-21 11:05                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-21 13:58                           ` Robert Richter
2013-05-21 15:20                           ` Jacob Shin
2013-05-28 13:03                           ` [tip:perf/core] perf/x86/amd: Rework AMD PMU init code tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-05-16 21:54         ` Drop WARN on AMD lack of perfctrs Josh Boyer
2013-05-16 22:33           ` Robert Richter
2013-05-16 19:31   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-05-16 20:00     ` Borislav Petkov

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