Re: [PATCH 4/9] perf/x86: add cross-HT counter exclusion infrastructure

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 05 2014 - 04:29:51 EST


On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:34:13PM +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> @@ -2020,12 +2050,29 @@ static void intel_pmu_cpu_starting(int cpu)
>
> if (x86_pmu.lbr_sel_map)
> cpuc->lbr_sel = &cpuc->shared_regs->regs[EXTRA_REG_LBR];
> +
> + if (x86_pmu.flags & PMU_FL_EXCL_CNTRS) {
> + for_each_cpu(i, topology_thread_cpumask(cpu)) {
> + struct intel_excl_cntrs *c;
> +
> + c = per_cpu(cpu_hw_events, i).excl_cntrs;
> + if (c && c->core_id == core_id) {
> + cpuc->kfree_on_online[1] = cpuc->excl_cntrs;
> + cpuc->excl_cntrs = c;
> + cpuc->excl_thread_id = 1;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> + cpuc->excl_cntrs->core_id = core_id;
> + cpuc->excl_cntrs->refcnt++;
> + }
> }

This hard assumes theres only ever 2 threads, which is true and I
suppose more in arch/x86 will come apart the moment Intel makes a chip
with more, still, do we have topology_thread_id() or so to cure this?

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