Re: [PATCH v0 3/5] perf: Introduce instruction trace filtering

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 05:48:03PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:

> > We can always call the validation thing, we must not call the program
> > thing !ACTIVE is a clear and simple rule.
> 
> Ah, but pmu::itrace_filter_setup() does not touch the hardware,
> pmu::start() does. The former keeps an array of, say, MSR values ready
> for programming in event::hw and the latter actually writes the MSRs. So
> the above example should not be a problem.
> 
> So in a way validation and programming are split already. And PT, for
> example, won't have it any other way, you can only program stuff into
> the registers while tracing is disabled.

Yes, I just read that in the last patch. If however we fold the whole
stop/start bits into it, that fails again.

Hmm.. lemme ponder a bit.
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