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Commit 035827e9 authored by Matt Fleming's avatar Matt Fleming Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf tests: Add Intel CQM test



Peter reports that it's possible to trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE() in the
Intel CQM code by combining a hardware event and an Intel CQM
(software) event into a group. Unfortunately, the perf tools are not
able to create this bundle and we need to manually construct a test
case.

For posterity, record Peter's proof of concept test case in tools/perf
so that it presents a model for how we can perform architecture
specific tests, or "arch tests", in perf in the future.

The particular issue triggered in the test case is that when the
counter for the hardware event overflows and triggers a PMI we'll read
both the hardware event and the software event counters.
Unfortunately, for CQM that involves performing an IPI to read the CQM
event counters on all sockets, which in NMI context triggers the
WARN_ON_ONCE().

Reported-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kanaka Juvva <kanaka.d.juvva@intel.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@intel.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437490509-15373-1-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3p4ra0u8vzm7m289a1m799kf@git.kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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