Re: [PATCH] perf, x86: Don't mark DataLA addresses as store

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 18 2014 - 06:25:39 EST



* Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Haswell supports reporting the data address for a range
> of events, including UOPS_RETIRED.ALL and some load
> events. Currently these addresses were always marked
> as stores, which is wrong, as they could be loads too.
> Change it to NA instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> index ae96cfa..7e9546a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static u64 precise_store_data_hsw(u64 status)
> union perf_mem_data_src dse;
>
> dse.val = 0;
> - dse.mem_op = PERF_MEM_OP_STORE;
> + dse.mem_op = PERF_MEM_OP_NA;
> dse.mem_lvl = PERF_MEM_LVL_NA;
> if (status & 1)
> dse.mem_lvl = PERF_MEM_LVL_L1;

NAK, this changelog is still deficient for the same reason it was
deficient a month ago.

Thanks,

Ingo
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