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DateFri, 27 May 2011 23:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
FromVince Weaver <>
SubjectRe: perf: regression with PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> This is very clear abuse of the API and I'm not really inclined to fix
> it, in fact, I'd be tempted to add an additional test to verify the
> argument to REFRESH > 0.

on that note (and while trying to document exactly what the ioctls do) it
seems that a PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH with an argument of anything higher
than one does not work on kernels 2.6.36 and newer. The behavior acts
as if 1 was passed, even if you pass in, say, 3.

Is it worth bisecting this, or has this become the new official behavior
since no one noticed until now?

To reproduce you can grab my tests from here:
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~vweaver1/projects/perf-events/validation.html

and run the
./validation/simple_overflow_leader
test

Vince



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