Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] perf/x86/intel: Perform rotation on Intel CQM RMIDs

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 12:23:21PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> +/*
> + * Exchange the RMID of a group of events.
> + */
> +static unsigned int
> +intel_cqm_xchg_rmid(struct perf_event *group, unsigned int rmid)
> +{
> +	struct perf_event *event;
> +	unsigned int old_rmid = group->hw.cqm_rmid;
> +	struct list_head *head = &group->hw.cqm_group_entry;
> +
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&cache_mutex);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If our RMID is being deallocated, perform a read now.
> +	 */
> +	if (__rmid_valid(old_rmid) && !__rmid_valid(rmid)) {
> +		struct intel_cqm_count_info info;
> +
> +		local64_set(&group->count, 0);
> +		info.event = group;
> +
> +		preempt_disable();
> +		smp_call_function_many(&cqm_cpumask, __intel_cqm_event_count,
> +				       &info, 1);
> +		preempt_enable();
> +	}

This suffers the same issue as before, why not call that one function
and not reimplement it?

Also, I don't think we'd ever swap an rmid for another valid one, right?
So we could do this read/update unconditionally.

> +
> +	raw_spin_lock_irq(&cache_lock);
> +
> +	group->hw.cqm_rmid = rmid;
> +	list_for_each_entry(event, head, hw.cqm_group_entry)
> +		event->hw.cqm_rmid = rmid;
> +
> +	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&cache_lock);
> +
> +	return old_rmid;
> +}