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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180802173727.GP2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/02/2018 10:37 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> I do not see how I can do so without incurring the cache hits and misses >> from the data needed and instructions run by this interface. Could you >> please share how I can do so and still obtain the accurate measurement >> of cache residency of a specific memory region? > That's the best you're going to get. You do _NOT_ get to use raw PMU. Hi Peter, This code is really fidgety. It's really easily perturbed even by tiny things like implicit cache accesses from the page walker filling the TLB from the page tables. Adding a bunch more code in the way is surely going to make it more fragile and imprecise. I totally understand not wanting to fill the tree with code hijacking the raw PMU. Is your reaction to this really around not wanting to start down the slippery slope that ends up with lots of raw PMU "owners"?