Re: [PATCH 2/5] perf: generic intel uncore support

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 16:28 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 06:11 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 11:11 +0800, Yan, Zheng wrote:
> >>
> >> Because using per-cpu allocation is inconvenience for PCI uncore device.
> > 
> > What are those, where does one read about them and why?
> > 
> PCI uncore device support was added by patch 4. If using per-cpu pointer,
> we have to setup the per-cpu pointer after the PCI driver's probe function
> recognizes the uncore device. It means we have to first add the PCI uncore
> device to a list, then call a function on all cpus to scan the list, find
> the right uncore device and setup the per-cpu pointer.

Yeah, I saw that, but it was all completely lacking in where one can
find actual detail on that stuff. What parts of the SDM do I read? Is
there anything other than the SDM, etc..


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