On 12/06/19 4:28 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 03:52:11PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu: >> On 12/06/19 3:41 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >>> Em Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 08:58:00AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu: >>>> On 12/06/19 3:09 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >>>>> Em Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 10:27:53AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu: >>>>>> Add 3 new packets to supports PEBS via PT, namely Block Begin Packet >>>>>> (BBP), >>>>>> Block Item Packet (BIP) and Block End Packet (BEP). PEBS data is encoded >>>>>> into multiple BIP packets that come between BBP and BEP. The BEP packet >>>>>> might be associated with a FUP packet. That is indicated by using a >>>>>> separate packet type (INTEL_PT_BEP_IP) similar to other packets types >>>>>> with >>>>>> the _IP suffix. >>>>>> >>>>>> Refer to the Intel SDM for more information about PEBS via PT. >>>>> >>>>> In these cases would be nice to provide an URL and page number, for >>>>> convenience. >>>> >>>> Intel SDM: >>>> >>>> https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm >>>> >>>> May 2019 version: Vol. 3B 18.5.5.2 PEBS output to Intel® Processor Trace >>> >>> Thanks! I'll add to that cset. >>> >>> What about the kernel bits? >> >> Awaiting V2, here is a link to the patches: >> >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190502105022.15534-1-alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com/ > > yeah, I saw those and PeterZ's comments, that is why I asked about them > :-) > >> There is also still a few more tools changes dependent upon the kernel >> patches. > > But I think I can go ahead and push the decoder bits, when the kernel > patches get merged we'll be almost ready to make full use of what it > provides, right?
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