Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: Fix overlap counter scheduling bug

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Nov 08 2016 - 10:09:56 EST


Adding Kan who actually maintains the uncore drivers these days.

> Which is two distinct groups, only one of which has overlap. And the one
> with overlap only has 2 overlapping masks, giving a max reties of 1.

Looks reasonable to limit the mask.

Are we sure this problem isn't in the other 0xc masks too ?

-Andi

>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
> index 272427700d48..71bc348736bd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/uncore_snbep.c
> @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ static struct event_constraint snbep_uncore_cbox_constraints[] = {
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x1c, 0xc),
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x1d, 0xc),
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x1e, 0xc),
> - EVENT_CONSTRAINT_OVERLAP(0x1f, 0xe, 0xff),
> + UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x1f, 0xc); /* should be 0x0e but that gives scheduling pain */
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x21, 0x3),
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x23, 0x3),
> UNCORE_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x31, 0x3),
>