Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf/x86/cqm,mbm: Store cqm,mbm count for all events when RMID is recycled

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 25 2016 - 05:20:44 EST


On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 05:27:18PM -0700, Vikas Shivappa wrote:
> During RMID recycling, when an event loses the RMID we saved the counter
> for group leader but it was not being saved for all the events in an
> event group. This would lead to a situation where if 2 perf instances
> are counting the same PID one of them would not see the updated count
> which other perf instance is seeing. This patch tries to fix the issue
> by saving the count for all the events in the same event group.


> @@ -486,14 +495,21 @@ static u32 intel_cqm_xchg_rmid(struct perf_event *group, u32 rmid)
> * If our RMID is being deallocated, perform a read now.
> */
> if (__rmid_valid(old_rmid) && !__rmid_valid(rmid)) {
>
> + rr = __init_rr(old_rmid, group->attr.config, 0);
> cqm_mask_call(&rr);
> local64_set(&group->count, atomic64_read(&rr.value));
> + list_for_each_entry(event, head, hw.cqm_group_entry) {
> + if (event->hw.is_group_event) {
> +
> + evttype = event->attr.config;
> + rr = __init_rr(old_rmid, evttype, 0);
> +
> + cqm_mask_call(&rr);
> + local64_set(&event->count,
> + atomic64_read(&rr.value));

Randomly indent much?

> + }
> + }
> }