Re: [PATCH] Support for perf on AMD family17h processors

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:01:53AM -0600, Janakarajan Natarajan wrote:
> This patch enables perf core PMU support for AMD family17h processors.
> In family17h, there is no PMC-event constraint. All events, irrespective
> of the type, can be measured using any of the performance counters.
> 

Is there a public document describing this thing about already?

> +	case 0x17:
> +		pr_cont("Fam17h ");
> +		/* In family 17h, there are no event constraints in the PMC hardware.
> +		 * We fallback to using default amd_get_event_constraints.
> +		 */
> +		break;

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