Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf-events: Add support for supplementary eventregisters v2

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 11:13 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Hrmm,. this doesn't really scale right wrt multiple extra_regs.
> > 
> > You made the extra_regs thing fairly extensible, but the above doesn't
> > really work well if there's multiple extra regs (say OFFCORE and
> > LBR_CONFIG -- possibly even the two OFFCORE regs present on westmere).
> > 
> > It basically needs a per-core state for each extra_reg possible.
> 
> It shouldn't be too hard to extend it to use a table. I didn't want
> to do that for the first iteration. I guess it could be done as followons
> once LBR is implemented.

Isn't it also relevant for the two offcore regs for wsm?
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