Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/topology: Fix AMD core count

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 06:08:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 02:09:26PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > First a question about the big picture: why is amd/core.c even
> > dealing with NB counters?
> 
> It it not, it is dealing with Fam10 NB events.
> 
> Fam10h doesn't have NB counters. Its NB events are on the same counters
> as all the other events. Its just that they have constraints.

See, and I was missing something: so there's the core x86_pmu and then
more PMUs get added with perf_pmu_register(). I.e., the uncore stuff, in
this case. Ok, makes sense...

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