Re: [tip: perf/core] perf/amd/ibs: Make IBS a core pmu

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

I believe this is one of the things Linus wanted to have on AMD hw.

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 12:03:03PM -0000, tip-bot2 for Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> The following commit has been merged into the perf/core branch of tip:
> 
> Commit-ID:     30093056f7b2f759ff180d3a86d29f68315e469b
> Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/30093056f7b2f759ff180d3a86d29f68315e469b
> Author:        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
> AuthorDate:    Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:09:04 +05:30
> Committer:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> CommitterDate: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:09:19 +01:00
> 
> perf/amd/ibs: Make IBS a core pmu
> 
> So far, only one pmu was allowed to be registered as core pmu and thus
> IBS pmus were being registered as uncore. However, with the event context
> rewrite, that limitation no longer exists and thus IBS pmus can also be
> registered as core pmu. This makes IBS much more usable, for ex, user
> will be able to do per-process precise monitoring on AMD:
> 
> Before patch:
>   $ sudo perf record -e cycles:pp ls
>   Error:
>   Invalid event (cycles:pp) in per-thread mode, enable system wide with '-a'
> 
> After patch:
>   $ sudo perf record -e cycles:pp ls
>   [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
>   [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.017 MB perf.data (33 samples) ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115093904.1799-1-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
> ---
>  arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> index 3271735..fbc2ce8 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/amd/ibs.c
> @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ static const struct attribute_group *op_attr_update[] = {
>  
>  static struct perf_ibs perf_ibs_fetch = {
>  	.pmu = {
> -		.task_ctx_nr	= perf_invalid_context,
> +		.task_ctx_nr	= perf_hw_context,
>  
>  		.event_init	= perf_ibs_init,
>  		.add		= perf_ibs_add,
> @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static struct perf_ibs perf_ibs_fetch = {
>  
>  static struct perf_ibs perf_ibs_op = {
>  	.pmu = {
> -		.task_ctx_nr	= perf_invalid_context,
> +		.task_ctx_nr	= perf_hw_context,
>  
>  		.event_init	= perf_ibs_init,
>  		.add		= perf_ibs_add,

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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