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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 1/1] perf/core: don't find side-band event from all pmus
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:24:37AM -0700, kan.liang@intel.com wrote:
> The V2 patch is mainly based on Peter's suggestion. But I didn't rename
> perf_event_aux to perf_event_sb. Because it looks there are many aux things
> in the codes, e.g. AUX area in ring buffer. I'm not sure if we need to change
> all aux to sb. We may do the rename later in separate patch.

Right.. no problem doing that in a separate patch.

> +static void perf_event_sb_mask(unsigned int sb_mask,
> + perf_event_aux_output_cb output,
> + void *data)
> +{
> + int sb;
> +
> + for (sb = 0; sb < sb_nr; sb++) {
> + if (!(sb_mask & (1 << sb)))
> + continue;
> + perf_event_sb_iterate(sb, output, data);
> + }
> +}

> @@ -5852,7 +5910,8 @@ static void perf_event_task(struct task_struct *task,
>
> perf_event_aux(perf_event_task_output,
> &task_event,
> - task_ctx);
> + task_ctx,
> + (1 << sb_task) | (1 << sb_mmap) | (1 << sb_comm));
> }

So one side-effect of this change is that the above event can be
delivered 3 times if you're 'lucky'.

Acme; does userspace care?

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