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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf_events: update PEBS event constraints (v2)
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Sorry for the delay. I realize I did not answer this message earlier.


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> * Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 04:20 +0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>> >> This patch updates PEBS event constraints for Intel Atom, Nehalem, Westmere.
>> >>
>> >> This patch also reorganizes the PEBS format/constraint detection code. It is
>> >> now based on processor model and not PEBS format. Two processors may use the
>> >> same PEBS format without have the same list of PEBS events.
>> >>
>> >> In this second version, we simplified the initialization of the PEBS constraints
>> >> by leveraging the existing switch() statement in perf_event_intel.c. We also
>> >> renamed the constraint tables to be more consistent with regular constraints.
>> >
>> > Hi, Stephane
>> >
>> > Nice updates.
>> > Wondering where did you get these PEBS event constraints? I didn't find
>> > these in the latest manual.
>> >
>> Yeah, the manual is lacking some information. The other source of information
>> is the PTU event files (whatif.intel.com).
>
> Plus i suspect you have performed testing on affected CPUs as well?
>
Yes, I did.

> If yes then i think we want to push these fixes via perf/urgent - they seem to
> nicely round up the constraints.
>
> Thanks,
>
>        Ingo
>
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