From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932292Ab3BGTJd (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:09:33 -0500 Received: from mail-ea0-f177.google.com ([209.85.215.177]:38141 "EHLO mail-ea0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932177Ab3BGTJ1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:09:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 20:09:21 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jacob Shin Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Stephane Eranian , Jiri Olsa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf, amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h Message-ID: <20130207190921.GC25223@gmail.com> References: <1360171589-6381-1-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> <1360171589-6381-7-git-send-email-jacob.shin@amd.com> <20130207175703.GA3398@jshin-Toonie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130207175703.GA3398@jshin-Toonie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jacob Shin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:26:29AM -0600, Jacob Shin wrote: > > On AMD family 15h processors, there are 4 new performance counters > > (in addition to 6 core performance counters) that can be used for > > counting northbridge events (i.e. DRAM accesses). Their bit fields are > > almost identical to the core performance counters. However, unlike the > > core performance counters, these MSRs are shared between multiple > > cores (that share the same northbridge). We will reuse the same code > > path as existing family 10h northbridge event constraints handler > > logic to enforce this sharing. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin > > Hi Ingo, could you please apply this one to tip as well? I > recieved tip-bot emails for all other patches in this series > except for this last one 6/6. > > Or was that intentional? If so, what other changes are > required/ recommended? Was waiting for Stephane's ack. Thanks, Ingo