Re: [tip:perf/core] perf: Rework the PMU methods

From: Michael Cree
Date: Sat Sep 11 2010 - 04:16:58 EST


On 10/09/10 07:50, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Commit-ID: a4eaf7f14675cb512d69f0c928055e73d0c6d252
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a4eaf7f14675cb512d69f0c928055e73d0c6d252
Author: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:37:10 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar<mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 20:46:30 +0200

perf: Rework the PMU methods

Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.

Regarding the new function alpha_pmu_stop() in arch/alpha/kernel/perf_event.c:

-static void alpha_pmu_unthrottle(struct perf_event *event)
+static void alpha_pmu_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
{
struct hw_perf_event *hwc =&event->hw;
struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc =&__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);

+ if (!(hwc->state& PERF_HES_STOPPED)) {
+ cpuc->idx_mask&= !(1UL<<hwc->idx);
^
Presumably ones complement (rather than logical not) is meant.

+ hwc->state |= PERF_HES_STOPPED;
+ }
+
+ if ((flags& PERF_EF_UPDATE)&& !(hwc->state& PERF_HES_UPTODATE)) {
+ alpha_perf_event_update(event, hwc, hwc->idx, 0);
+ hwc->state |= PERF_HES_UPTODATE;
+ }
+
+ if (cpuc->enabled)
+ wrperfmon(PERFMON_CMD_ENABLE, (1UL<<hwc->idx));

By the name of the function (alpha_pmu_stop) I assume that the intent is to stop the specific PMC here. The above fails to do that. When wrperfmon() is used with PERFMON_CMD_ENABLE it enables the PMCs with set bits in the second argument. It does not stop the others. To do that wrperfmon() must be called with PERFMON_CMD_DISABLE and the corresponding PMC bits set to disable the PMC.

Cheers
Michael.
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