Re: [PATCH V5 0/6] perf and x86/intel_rdt: Fix lack of coordination with perf

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Reinette Chatre wrote:

> Dear Maintainers,

Sorry for replying late.

> On 9/20/2018 7:11 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> >> Reinette Chatre (6):
> >>   perf/core: Add sanity check to deal with pinned event failure
> >>   perf/x86: Add helper to obtain performance counter index
> >>   x86/intel_rdt: Remove local register variables
> >>   x86/intel_rdt: Create required perf event attributes
> >>   x86/intel_rdt: Use perf infrastructure for measurements
> >>   x86/intel_rdt: Re-enable pseudo-lock measurements
> >>
> >>  Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt          |  22 +-
> >>  arch/x86/events/core.c                      |  21 ++
> >>  arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h           |   1 +
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_pseudo_lock.c | 372 ++++++++++++--------
> >>  kernel/events/core.c                        |   6 +
> >>  5 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Yeah, these look good, thanks!
> > 
> > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
> Could you please consider this series for inclusion into v4.19?

So in principle I'm having no objections as this really is mostly a RDT
only issue.

Peter, any objections against the Perf part of it, aside the core patch
which is an obvious fix?

Thanks,

	tglx