The following patch solves the problems introduced by Robert's
commit
41bf498 and reported by Arun Sharma. This commit gets rid
of the base + index notation for reading and writing PMU msrs.
The problem is that for fixed counters, the new calculation for
the base did not take into account the fixed counter indexes,
thus all fixed counters were read/written from fixed counter 0.
Although all fixed counters share the same config MSR, they each
have their own counter register.
Without:
$ task -e unhalted_core_cycles -e instructions_retired -e baclears noploop 1 noploop for 1 seconds
242202299 unhalted_core_cycles (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000790892, run=
1000790892)
2389685946 instructions_retired (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000790892, run=
1000790892)
49473 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000790892, run=
1000790892)
With:
$ task -e unhalted_core_cycles -e instructions_retired -e baclears noploop 1 noploop for 1 seconds
2392703238 unhalted_core_cycles (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000840809, run=
1000840809)
2389793744 instructions_retired (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000840809, run=
1000840809)
47863 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=
1000840809, run=
1000840809)
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
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20110319172005.GB4978@quad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>