Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Add Silvermont (22nm Atom) support

From: Yan, Zheng
Date: Thu Jul 18 2013 - 07:00:24 EST


On 07/18/2013 04:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 01:39:28PM +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
>> On 07/18/2013 01:36 PM, Yan, Zheng wrote:
>>> From: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Compare to old atom, Silvermont has offcore and has more events
>>> that support PEBS.
>>>
>>> Silvermont has two offcore response configuration MSRs, but the
>>> event code for OFFCORE_RSP_1 is 0x02b7. To avoid complicating
>>> intel_fixup_er(), use INTEL_UEVENT_EXTRA_REG to define offcore
>>> MSRs. So intel_fixup_er() can find the code for OFFCORE_RSP_1
>>> by x86_pmu.extra_regs[1].event.
>>>
>>
>> Document is at http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/manuals/64-ia-32-architectures-optimization-manual.pdf, but it has no PEBS event list.
>
> Why isn't this in the regular SDM like all the other stuff?
>

I don't know, probably they still haven't finished the document yet. (above PDF has no PEBS event list).

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