On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:03:13PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> Takao Indoh <indou.ta...@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:

> Even though TOPA_SHIFT happens to be the same as PAGE_SHIFT, it is a
> property of a separate hardware block, not mmu. PAGE_SHIFT is 12, but
> 12 is not always PAGE_SHIFT.

PAGE_SHIFT is _always_ 12 on x86. Changing that will require changing
the page table format, a rather unlikely thing to go happen.

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c 
> > b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
> > index 183de71..1e7d89e 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_pt.c
> > @@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ static struct pt_pmu pt_pmu;
> >  
> >  enum cpuid_regs {
> >     CR_EAX = 0,
> > +   CR_EBX,
> >     CR_ECX,
> > -   CR_EDX,
> > -   CR_EBX
> > +   CR_EDX
> >  };
> 
> This doesn't seem necessary.

For those of us suffering OCDs and all, its a good change though. The
alfabet song does go: A, B, C, D etc.. after all. Not: A, C, D, B ...
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