Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Cavium ThunderX uncore PMU support

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:44:18AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 12:37:07PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:30:36AM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > Note:
> > > I'm using perf_sw_context in difference to perf_invalid_context
> > > (see WARN_ON in perf_pmu_register). Reason is that with perf_invalid_context
> > > add() is never called and the counter results are shown as "unsupported" by
> > > perf. With perf_sw_context everything works as expected.
> > 
> > What?! All the uncore PMUs use perf_invalid_context. What doesn't work
> > for you?
> 
> I think there's general confusion over the use of invalid context.
> Perhaps we could clear that up with:
> 
> #define perf_uncore_context	perf_invalid_context
> 
> and
> 
> s/perf_hw_context/perf_cpu_hw_context/

What might be missing is the fact that these are _TASK_ contexts.

New names might clarify things a little though.