From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752731AbeAaNPK (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:15:10 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53276 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751587AbeAaNPJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 08:15:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:15:05 +0100 From: Jiri Olsa To: Andi Kleen Cc: Stephane Eranian , "Liang, Kan" , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] bugs fix for large PEBS mmap read and rdpmc read Message-ID: <20180131131505.GB31614@krava> References: <20180130133917.GC29098@krava> <6d708c09-52a7-a906-b651-b133a7b4f189@linux.intel.com> <20180130150454.GE29098@krava> <35090c62-466a-aec8-b1a3-69def959c1c6@linux.intel.com> <24210bcb-0e4b-58fe-bcda-da30019f6e7e@linux.intel.com> <20180130185212.GA16806@krava> <20180131035941.GW26209@tassilo.jf.intel.com> <20180131091539.GA3313@krava> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180131091539.GA3313@krava> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:15:39AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 07:59:41PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Still, the part I am missing here, is why asking for > > > PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD voids large PEBS. > > > > I think it was disabled together with frequency mode > > (which we could support too, but it's a bit more work) > > > > But yes PERIOD could probably be allowed. > > looks like it's just a matter of adding PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD > into PEBS_FREERUNNING_FLAGS, we already populate period > in setup_pebs_sample_data > > jirka > > > --- > diff --git a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h > index 8e4ea143ed96..78f91ec1056e 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h > +++ b/arch/x86/events/perf_event.h > @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ struct amd_nb { > PERF_SAMPLE_ID | PERF_SAMPLE_CPU | PERF_SAMPLE_STREAM_ID | \ > PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC | PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER | \ > PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION | PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR | \ > - PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR | PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER) > + PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR | PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_USER | \ > + PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD) seems to work, getting large PEBS event for following command line: perf record -e cycles:P -c 100 --no-timestamp -C 0 --period jirka