From: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: acme@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jolsa@kernel.org, eranian@google.com,
alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 03/14] perf/x86/intel: Introduce the fourth fixed counter
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:22:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbf09b63-4b6d-ebdf-33fc-f93695b3f94a@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720162024.GT10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 7/20/2020 12:20 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:05:43AM -0700, kan.liang@linux.intel.com wrote:
>> /*
>> + * There is no event-code assigned to the fixed-mode PMCs.
>> + *
>> + * For a fixed-mode PMC, which has an equivalent event on a general-purpose
>> + * PMC, the event-code of the equivalent event is used for the fixed-mode PMC,
>> + * e.g., Instr_Retired.Any and CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Core.
>> + *
>> + * For a fixed-mode PMC, which doesn't have an equivalent event, a
>> + * pseudo-encoding is used, e.g., CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref and TOPDOWN.SLOTS.
>> + * The pseudo event-code for a fixed-mode PMC must be 0x00.
>> + * The pseudo umask-code is 0x0X. The X indicates the index of the fixed
>> + * counter.
>
> Isn't it X+1 ? Such that 0x0000 is an invalid event? After all, the
> pseudo event for Fixed2 is 0x0300.
I will fix the inaccurate description as below in V7.
+ * The pseudo umask-code is 0xX. The X equals the index of the fixed
+ * counter + 1, e.g., the fixed counter 2 has the pseudo-encoding 0x0300.
Thanks,
Kan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 14:05 [PATCH V6 00/14] TopDown metrics support for Icelake kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 01/14] perf/x86: Use event_base_rdpmc for the RDPMC userspace support kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 02/14] perf/x86/intel: Name the global status bit in NMI handler kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 03/14] perf/x86/intel: Introduce the fourth fixed counter kan.liang
2020-07-20 16:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-20 18:22 ` Liang, Kan [this message]
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 04/14] perf/x86/intel: Move BTS index to 47 kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 05/14] perf/x86/intel: Fix the name of perf METRICS kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 06/14] perf/x86/intel: Use switch in intel_pmu_disable/enable_event kan.liang
2020-07-20 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-20 19:02 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 07/14] perf/x86/intel: Generic support for hardware TopDown metrics kan.liang
2020-07-20 17:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-20 18:11 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-21 9:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-21 14:05 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-21 14:25 ` peterz
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 08/14] perf/x86: Add a macro for RDPMC offset of fixed counters kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 09/14] perf/x86/intel: Support TopDown metrics on Ice Lake kan.liang
2020-07-21 12:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-21 14:23 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-21 14:31 ` peterz
2020-07-21 15:50 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-21 17:38 ` Andi Kleen
2020-07-21 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 10/14] perf/x86/intel: Support per-thread RDPMC TopDown metrics kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 11/14] perf/x86/intel: Disable sample-read the slots and metrics events kan.liang
2020-07-21 13:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-21 16:07 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-21 19:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-22 19:26 ` Liang, Kan
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 12/14] perf, tools, stat: Support new per thread TopDown metrics kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 13/14] perf, tools, stat: Check Topdown Metric group kan.liang
2020-07-17 14:05 ` [PATCH V6 14/14] perf, tools: Add documentation for topdown metrics kan.liang
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