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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>,
	hpa@zytor.com, anton@samba.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael@ellerman.id.au,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, VICTORK@il.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	oleg@redhat.com, mikey@neuling.org,
	linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] tools/perf: Add required memory barriers
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:24:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131111162402.GA26898@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131107082122.GC32438@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:21:22AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Requiring the user of a kernel interface to have a deep knowledge of 
> > > optimizing compilers, barriers, and CPU memory models is just asking 
> > > for trouble.
> > 
> > It shouldn't be all that hard to put this in a (lgpl) library others can 
> > link to -- that way you can build it once (using GCC).
> 
> I'd suggest to expose it via a new perf syscall, using vsyscall methods to 
> not have to enter the kernel for the pure user-space bits. It should also 
> have a real usecase in tools/perf/ so that it's constantly tested, with 
> matching 'perf test' entries, etc.

Oh man, I've never poked at the entire vsyscall stuff before; let alone
done it for ARM, ARM64, PPC64 etc..

Keeping it in userspace like we have is so much easier.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-11 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 23:54 perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc Michael Neuling
2013-10-23  7:39 ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-23 14:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-23 14:25   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-25 17:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-25 20:31     ` Michael Neuling
2013-10-27  9:00     ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-28  9:22       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-28 10:02     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-10-28 12:38       ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-28 13:26         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-28 16:34           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-28 20:17             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-28 20:58               ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-29 10:21                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-29 10:30                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-29 10:35                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-29 20:15                       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-29 19:27                     ` Vince Weaver
2013-10-30 10:42                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-30 11:48                         ` James Hogan
2013-10-30 12:48                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 13:19                         ` [tip:perf/core] tools/perf: Add required memory barriers tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 13:50                           ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-06 14:00                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 14:28                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 14:55                                 ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-06 15:10                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 15:23                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 14:44                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 16:07                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 17:31                                   ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-06 18:24                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-07  8:21                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-07 14:27                                         ` Vince Weaver
2013-11-07 15:55                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-11 16:24                                         ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2013-11-11 21:10                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-29 21:23                     ` perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc Michael Neuling
2013-10-30  9:27                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-30 11:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-30 14:52                     ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-30 15:39                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-30 17:14                         ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-30 17:44                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-31  6:16                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 13:12                         ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-11-02 16:36                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-02 17:26                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-31  6:40                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 14:25                       ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-11-02 17:28                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 14:56                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-02 17:32                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-03 14:40                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-03 15:17                             ` [RFC] arch: Introduce new TSO memory barrier smp_tmb() Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-03 18:08                               ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-03 20:01                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-03 22:42                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-03 23:34                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-04 10:51                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-04 11:22                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-04 16:27                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-04 16:48                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-04 19:11                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-04 19:18                                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-04 20:54                                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-04 20:53                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-05 14:05                                                 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-05 14:49                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-05 18:49                                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 11:00                                                     ` Will Deacon
2013-11-06 12:39                                                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 12:51                                                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-11-06 13:57                                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 18:48                                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-06 19:42                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-07 11:17                                                       ` Will Deacon
2013-11-07 13:36                                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-07 23:50                                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2013-11-04 11:05                                       ` Will Deacon
2013-11-04 16:34                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-03 20:59                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-03 22:43                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-03 17:07                             ` perf events ring buffer memory barrier on powerpc Will Deacon
2013-11-03 22:47                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-04  9:57                                 ` Will Deacon
2013-11-04 10:52                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 16:11                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-02 17:46                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 16:18                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-02 17:49                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-30 13:28                   ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-30 15:51                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-30 18:29                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-30 19:11                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-31  4:33                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-31  4:32                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-31  9:04                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-31 15:07                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-31 15:19                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-01  9:28                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 10:30                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-02 15:20                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-04  9:07                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-04 10:00                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-31  9:59                       ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-31 12:28                         ` David Laight
2013-10-31 12:55                           ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-10-31 15:25                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-01 16:06                           ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-11-01 16:25                             ` David Laight
2013-11-01 16:30                               ` Victor Kaplansky
2013-11-03 20:57                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-02 15:46                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-10-28 19:09           ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-29 14:06     ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf: Fix perf ring buffer memory ordering tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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