On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 14:34 +0100, stephane eranian wrote:
>
>> > Won't this give very funny results for mixed pmu groups?
>> >
>>
>> What do you mean by 'mixed pmu groups'?
>
> We currently have a number of struct pmu objects:
>
> perf_ops_generic
> perf_ops_cpu_clock
> perf_ops_task_clock
>
> which are all software based PMUs, and one of:
>
> pmu (arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c)
> power_pmu (arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c)
>
> To represent the hardware PMU.
>
> Now say you mix software events and hardware events into a single group,
> the loop in validate_group:
>
> list_for_each_entry(sibling, &leader->sibling_list, group_entry) {
> if (!validate_event(&fake_pmu, sibling))
> return -ENOSPC;
> }
>
> could pass a !hardware event into validate_event(), which currently
> ignores it because event->pmu won't be &pmu, however if you remove that
> check, it'll try and call x86 routines on a software event, which is
> bound to go funny.
>
Ok, so it seems the only valid test to check if the event is related to the
HW PMU is to compare event->pmu with pmu (arch/x86/.../perf_event.c).
In that case you first suggestion is fine.
> Now Frederic is going to make things more interesting by representing HW
> breakpoints as another HW PMU (the distinction between hw/sw pmu is in
> scheduling, you can always schedule a software event).
>
> This weakens the !is_software_event(), in that !software doesn't tell
> you which hardware event it is -- something which needs mending in your
> more complex x86 constraints scheduling patch.
>
That means we can drop is_software_event() in this code and instead
define locally
in x86 a is_hw_pmu_event() function as event->pmu == &pmu.
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