Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf: Add support for extra parameters for raw events

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Fri Nov 12 2010 - 05:41:33 EST


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > Also, I think we can use the same mechanism to program the
>> > PEBS-load-latency MSR, right?
>>
>> I haven't looked at that, but if it's a per core resource
>> the infrastructure can be reused at least.
>
> Can't remember if the load-latency msr is per-core, but its an extra reg
> that needs to be set.

Load latency is luckily per thread. Nothing special to do to handle this one.
We can restore its value from attr->config.

>
> The nhm/wsm LBR config msr is per-core though, so that could use your
> infrastructure too.
>
Exactly.
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