Re: [PATCH -tip, final] perf, x86: Add hw_watchdog_set_attr() in asake of nmi-watchdog on P4

[Ingo Molnar]

* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +static void p4_hw_watchdog_set_attr(struct perf_event_attr *wd_attr)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * Watchdog ticks are special on Netburst, we use
> +	 * that named "non-sleeping" ticks as recommended
> +	 * by Intel SDM Vol3b.
> +	 */
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(wd_attr->type	!= PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE ||
> +		     wd_attr->config	!= PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES);
> +
> +	wd_attr->type	= PERF_TYPE_RAW;
> +	wd_attr->config	=
> +		p4_config_pack_escr(P4_ESCR_EVENT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, NBOGUS0)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, NBOGUS1)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, NBOGUS2)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, NBOGUS3)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, BOGUS0)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, BOGUS1)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, BOGUS2)		|
> +			P4_ESCR_EMASK_BIT(P4_EVENT_EXECUTION_EVENT, BOGUS3))		|
> +		p4_config_pack_cccr(P4_CCCR_THRESHOLD(15) | P4_CCCR_COMPLEMENT		|
> +			P4_CCCR_COMPARE);
> +}

So why don't we simply set this for all PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES 
events in the P4 PMU driver? That would remove half of the patch 
AFAICS.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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