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SubjectRe: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel/pt: Generate PMI in the STOP region as well
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:40:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin <tipbot@zytor.com> writes:
> >
> > > Commit-ID: ab92b232ae05c382c3df0e3d6a5c6d16b639ac8c
> > > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ab92b232ae05c382c3df0e3d6a5c6d16b639ac8c
> > > Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> > > AuthorDate: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:18:32 +0300
> > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > CommitDate: Thu, 12 May 2016 14:45:59 +0200
> > >
> > > perf/x86/intel/pt: Generate PMI in the STOP region as well
> > >
> > > Currently, the PT driver always sets the PMI bit one region (page) before
> > > the STOP region so that we can wake up the consumer before we run out of
> > > room in the buffer and have to disable the event. However, we also need
> > > an interrupt in the last output region, so that we actually get to disable
> > > the event (if no more room from new data is available at that point),
> > > otherwise hardware just quietly refuses to start, but the event is
> > > scheduled in and we end up losing trace data till the event gets removed.
> > >
> > > For a cpu-wide event it is even worse since there may not be any
> > > re-scheduling at all and no chance for the ring buffer code to notice
> > > that its buffer is filled up and the event needs to be disabled (so that
> > > the consumer can re-enable it when it finishes reading the data out). In
> > > other words, all the trace data will be lost after the buffer gets filled
> > > up.
> > >
> > > This patch makes PT also generate a PMI when the last output region is
> > > full.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
> > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >
> > Can we also have this one queued up for stable 4.4 and 4.5?
>
> Agreed.
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

The filename moved around, now fixed and queued up, thanks.

greg k-h

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