On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 01:50:22PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > If PEBS declares ability to output its data to Intel PT stream, use the > aux_source attribute bit to enable PEBS data output to PT. This requires > a PT event to be present and scheduled in the same context. Unlike the > DS area, the kernel does not extract PEBS records from the PT stream to > generate corresponding records in the perf stream, because that would > require real time in-kernel PT decoding, which is not feasible. The PMI, > however, can still be used. > > The output setting is per-CPU, so all PEBS events must be either writing > to PT or to the DS area, so in order to not mess up the event scheduling, > we fall back to the latter in case both types of events are scheduled in. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 13 +++++++ > arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > arch/x86/events/perf_event.h | 9 +++++ > arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 ++ > 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c > index 4b4dac089635..949a589fd9b1 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c > +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c > @@ -3291,6 +3291,19 @@ static int intel_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event > *event) > } > } > > + if (event->attr.aux_source) { > + if (!event->attr.precise_ip) > + return -EINVAL; > + > + if (!x86_pmu.intel_cap.pebs_output_pt_available) > + return -EOPNOTSUPP; > + > + event->hw.flags |= PERF_X86_EVENT_PEBS_VIA_PT; > + > + /* Signal to the core that we handled it */ > + event->attr.aux_source = 0;
That's a bit yuck, ideally we'd not modify attrs. Can't we change that test in perf_event_alloc() to something like: if (event->attr.aux_source && !(pmu->capabilities & PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SOURCE)) // error ? > + }