On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 20:50 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > As for BTS, it looks like we don't throttle the thing at all, so we
> > shouldn't ever get to the asymmetric thing, right?
> No you do, in the same function:
> static void intel_pmu_disable_event(struct perf_event *event)
> {
> struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
> struct cpu_hw_events *cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
>
> if (unlikely(hwc->idx == INTEL_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BTS)) {
> intel_pmu_disable_bts();
> intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer();
> return;
> }
Right, but the main event loop in intel_pmu_handle_irq() is over the
MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_STATUS status bits, BTS is not included in those,
so we'd never end up calling x86_pmu_stop() on the associated event.
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