* Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> wrote:
> + event->hw.idx = -1;
> + event->hw.event_base = (event->attr.config == APERFMPERF_EVENT_APERF ?
> + MSR_IA32_APERF : MSR_IA32_MPERF);
So instead of having a separate driver per MSR, I think it might be
more useful to have a generic 'MSR as counters' PMU driver, for such
really simple cases where MSR contents represent an interesting
hardware metric, and have a table that enumerates the MSRs we allow to
be measured, and a sysfs list of them, to allow easy discovery.
APERF/MPERF would be one such MSR, MSR_SMI_COUNT another one - but
there are also other interesting ones.
Some of these are per CPU, some are system wide. Such an approach
would be far more robust than tooling poking around in /dev/msr (!).
Thanks,
Ingo
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