Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] perf/x86/intel/bm.c: Add Intel Branch Monitoring support

[Megha Dey]

On Mon, 2017-11-20 at 12:57 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 05:54:05PM -0800, Megha Dey wrote:
> > +	mutex_lock(&bm_counter_mutex);
> > +	for (i = 0; i < BM_MAX_COUNTERS; i++) {
> > +		if (bm_counter_owner[i] == NULL) {
> > +			counter_to_use = i;
> > +			bm_counter_owner[i] = event;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +	mutex_unlock(&bm_counter_mutex);
> > +
> > +	if (counter_to_use == -1)
> > +		return -EBUSY;
> 
> > +static struct pmu intel_bm_pmu = {
> > +	.task_ctx_nr     = perf_sw_context,
> > +	.attr_groups     = intel_bm_attr_groups,
> > +	.event_init      = intel_bm_event_init,
> > +	.add             = intel_bm_event_add,
> > +	.del             = intel_bm_event_del,
> > +};
> 
> Still horrid.. still no.

It seems like perf_invalid_context does not support per task monitoring:
find_get_context():
 ctxn = pmu->task_ctx_nr;
        if (ctxn < 0)
                goto errout;

Also, perf_hw_context is to be used only for core PMU, correct?

That leaves us with only perf_sw_context to be used. Not sure if a new
context needs to be implemented.