From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762746Ab3DDQKy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:10:54 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:47149 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762468Ab3DDQKx (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:10:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1365091846.2609.96.camel@laptop> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] perf: Fix hw breakpoints overflow period sampling From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jiri Olsa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andi Kleen , Oleg Nesterov , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , Corey Ashford , Frederic Weisbecker , Vince Weaver , Stephane Eranian Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:10:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1362940871-24486-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> References: <1362940871-24486-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1362940871-24486-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.2-0ubuntu0.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2013-03-10 at 19:41 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote: > The hw breakpoint pmu 'add' function is missing the > period_left update needed for SW events. > > The perf HW breakpoint events use SW events framework > for to process the overflow, so it needs to be properly > initialized during PMU 'add' method. Yeah looks about right..