Peter Zijlstra [pet...@infradead.org] wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > @@ -1604,6 +1613,12 @@ static void power_pmu_start_txn(struct pmu *pmu)
| > static void power_pmu_cancel_txn(struct pmu *pmu)
| > {
| > struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw = this_cp
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, nop_txn_flags);
> +
> +static int nop_txn_flags_get_and_clear(void)
> +{
> + int *flagsp;
> + int flags;
> +
> + flagsp = &get_cpu_var(nop_txn_flags);
> +
> + flags = *flagsp;
> + *f
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> @@ -1604,6 +1613,12 @@ static void power_pmu_start_txn(struct pmu *pmu)
> static void power_pmu_cancel_txn(struct pmu *pmu)
> {
> struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw = this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_hw_events);
> + int txn_flags;
> +
> +
Currently, the PMU interface allows reading only one counter at a time.
But some PMUs like the 24x7 counters in Power, support reading several
counters at once. To leveage this functionality, extend the transaction
interface to support a "transaction type".
The first type, PERF_PMU_TXN_ADD, refers
