Re: [PATCH 18/25] mm/riscv: Use mm_fault_accounting()

From: Peter Xu
Date: Thu Jun 18 2020 - 20:12:13 EST


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 04:49:23PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> AFAICT this changes the behavior of the perf event: it used to count any fault,
> whereas now it only counts those that succeed successfully. If everyone else
> is doing it that way then I'm happy to change us over, but this definately
> isn't just avoiding retries.

Right, I'm preparing v2 to keep the old behavior of PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS,
while with a nicer approach.

Thanks for looking!

--
Peter Xu