Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods
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- Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: x86: Fix call-chain support to use NMI-safe methods
- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:47:14 +0200
- Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, hpa@xxxxxxxxx, paulus@xxxxxxxxx, acme@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx, penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx, efault@xxxxxx, jeremy@xxxxxxxx, npiggin@xxxxxxx, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-tip-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If it's a slowdown then the decision is easy: we dont want this,
> > we want to push the overhead into the sampling code, away from
> > common codepaths.
>
> I did not try to make the "hand unroll + ret" the default. I
> therefore don't know if it is faster or slower than iret. But I
> prefered to stay on the safe side and only modify the exceptions
> nested within NMI handlers.
hm, i misread that bit then. Too bad.
Btw., that speedup question is still valid. (Just not relevant here
and now.)
Ingo
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