Re: [RFC] perf_events: support for uncore a.k.a. nest units

From: Lin Ming
Date: Wed Apr 21 2010 - 10:38:41 EST


On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:22 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:12 +0000, Lin Ming wrote:
> > + ret = pmu->commit_txn(pmu);
> > + if (!ret) {
> > + pmu->stop_txn(pmu);
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> >
> > group_error:
> > + pmu->stop_txn(pmu);
>
> If you let commit_txn() also clear the state you can save some logic and
> a method.

I add this ->stop_txn(pmu) because the rollback code also need to clear
the state.

>
> But yes, this looks good. If you don't remove the weak interface just
> yet, you can do a patch per architecture that uses this (at least
> powerpc and sparc do), and remove the weak thing at the end once all
> users are gone.
>

OK, I'll do that for powerpc and sparc.

And need to check if there are transaction methods in group_sched_in for
other arch, as below.

group_sched_in(...)
{
if (pmu->start_txn)
pmu->start_txn(pmu);

if (pmu->commit_txn)
pmu->commit_txn(pmu)
}

Thanks,
Lin Ming

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