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perf/x86/intel: Export mem events only if there's PEBS support
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Thu, 6 Sep 2018 13:57:48 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:29:07 +0000 (17:29 +0200)
commitd4ae552982de39417d17f823df1f06b1cbc3686c
treebe9ce80570d669eee28ee4d9ed7ba7216f2a2192
parentf703fd374ef8fb06e46713b326d255e20d6278ad
perf/x86/intel: Export mem events only if there's PEBS support

Memory events depends on PEBS support and access to LDLAT MSR, but we
display them in /sys/devices/cpu/events even if the CPU does not
provide those, like for KVM guests.

That brings the false assumption that those events should be
available, while they fail event to open.

Separating the mem-* events attributes and merging them with
cpu_events only if there's PEBS support detected.

We could also check if LDLAT MSR is available, but the PEBS check
seems to cover the need now.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180906135748.GC9577@krava
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/events/core.c
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c