Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Support full width counting v3

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jun 25 2013 - 03:23:46 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks good - the changelog needs more work: please first outline the
> current behavior (how we can only write 32 bit values into the counter,
> even though the counter range is larger on most CPUs).
>
> Then also outline the Haswell problems more precisely. What happens,
> why, with what probability and why do we care?

For the latter it's enough to put a reference like this into the
changelog:

See the patch "perf/x86/intel: Avoid checkpointed counters causing
excessive TSX aborts" for more details.

Thanks,

Ingo
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