Re: [PATCH -tip/perf/core] perf, x86: P4 PMU - Drop redundantWARN_ON_ONCE

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jul 06 2011 - 13:38:47 EST


On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 21:24 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> This WARN_ON_ONCE triggers a false alarm on SMP because
> nmi-watchdog uses a single global 'wd_hw_attr' variable
> to serve perf event attributes and once p4_hw_watchdog_set_attr
> has modified it subsequent calls on the rest cpus trigger
> the warning.
>
> It is safe to simply drop it since we know the caller may
> pass already altered type and config.
>
> Repoted-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Repoted? Hmm, maybe symbolically I put this code in a different pot.

Reported-and-tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.git.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
> +++ linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c
> @@ -726,9 +726,6 @@ static void p4_hw_watchdog_set_attr(stru
> * 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) |


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