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Message-ID: <1440595268.15478.47.camel@synopsys.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:21:08 +0000
From:	Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>
To:	"peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com" <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	"arc-linux-dev@...opsys.com" <arc-linux-dev@...opsys.com>,
	"arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] ARCv2: perf: Support sampling events using
 overflow interrupts

Hi Peter,

On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 15:12 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 05:20:20PM +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > @@ -295,6 +317,16 @@ static int arc_pmu_add(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_INDEX, idx);
> > +
> > +	arc_pmu->act_counter[idx] = event;
> > +
> > +	if (is_sampling_event(event)) {
> > +		/* Mimic full counter overflow as other arches do */
> > +		write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_INT_CNTL, (u32)arc_pmu->max_period);
> > +		write_aux_reg(ARC_REG_PCT_INT_CNTH,
> > +			      (arc_pmu->max_period >> 32));
> > +	}
> > +
> 
> pmu::add should call pmu::start when PERF_EF_START, without that it
> should not start the counter, only schedule it.
> 
> (although currently all pmu::add() calls will have EF_START set)

And that's what we do, don't we?
----------------------->8-----------------------
	if (flags & PERF_EF_START)
		arc_pmu_start(event, PERF_EF_RELOAD);
----------------------->8-----------------------

-Alexey--
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