Re: [PATCH v2 -tip] perf: x86, add SandyBridge support

[Lin Ming]

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 22:24 +0800, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 22:21 +0800, Lin Ming wrote:
> > > >  #define INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n)       \
> > > >     EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n, ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_EVENT)
> > > > +#define INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT2(c, n)      \
> > > > +   EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n, INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK)
> > > 
> > > That's a particularly bad name, how about something like
> > > 
> > > INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT or somesuch.
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > But any case it's duplicated with PEBS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT.
> > 
> > #define PEBS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n)     \
> >         EVENT_CONSTRAINT(c, n, INTEL_ARCH_EVENT_MASK) 
> 
> Ah, indeed, so maybe we can remove PEBS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT and use regular
> INTEL_*_CONSTRAINTS there, that could also help for PEBS events where
> all umasks are allowed (not sure there are any such things but the SNB
> PEBS list was quite large).

Yes, there are, for example, BR_INST_RETIRED.*

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