Re: [PATCH 4/8] perf x86: Adding hardware events translations foramd cpus

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 16:25 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 04:11:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:53 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > +static ssize_t amd_event_sysfs_show(char *page, u64 config)
> > > +{
> > > +       u64 event = (config & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_EVENT) |
> > > +                   (config & AMD64_EVENTSEL_EVENT) >> 24;
> > > +
> > > +       return x86_event_sysfs_show(page, config, event);
> > > +} 
> > 
> > You'll need to filter out 0xF<<32 bits before passing them on in
> > @config, Intel has a different meaning for them.
> 
> Right, that would be those 'intx and intx_cp' bits we discussed, right?

Right.

> My thinking was to customize this once those bits are introduced and
> part of the format stuff. Until that time the x86_event_sysfs_show
> function shows proper data for both amd and intel. Or is it already
> on its way in?

No thats fine, just something we shouldn't forget about. They're in Andi
Kleen's HSW patches, I need to go over the v2 of that.
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