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Commit d4ae5529 authored by Jiri Olsa's avatar Jiri Olsa Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter 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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent f703fd37
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