Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix intel shared extra msr allocation

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Wed Jun 06 2012 - 21:25:32 EST


On 06/06/2012 06:12 PM, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> There is something wrong with this patch, I instrumented the code
> and I can see:
> [ 1377.324575] 1. idx=1 reg_idx=1 ref=-1 config=0xff01 era->config=0xff01
> ^^^^^^
> The test case on WSM (RSP0, RSP1):
>
> $ perf stat -a -C13 -e
> offcore_response_1:dmnd_data_rd,offcore_response_1:dmnd_data_rd sleep
> 100 &
> $ perf stat -a -C1 -e offcore_response_1:dmnd_rfo sleep 1
>
> I think this happens during scheduling of the events, i.e., during the
> run and not on initial
> programming. That could happen with cgroups, for instance.
>

Maybe we need adjust shared MSRs' reference counts in intel_fixup_er() ?
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