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Date:   Fri, 3 Jul 2020 09:56:46 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:58:42PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 09:11:06AM -0400, Liang, Kan wrote:
> > On 7/2/2020 3:40 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 04:09:45PM +0800, Like Xu wrote:
> > > > Like Xu (10):
> > > >    perf/x86/core: Refactor hw->idx checks and cleanup
> > > >    perf/x86/lbr: Add interface to get LBR information
> > > >    perf/x86: Add constraint to create guest LBR event without hw counter
> > > >    perf/x86: Keep LBR records unchanged in host context for guest usage
> > > 
> > > > Wei Wang (1):
> > > >    perf/x86: Fix variable types for LBR registers
> > > 
> > > >   arch/x86/events/core.c            |  26 +--
> > > >   arch/x86/events/intel/core.c      | 109 ++++++++-----
> > > >   arch/x86/events/intel/lbr.c       |  51 +++++-
> > > >   arch/x86/events/perf_event.h      |   8 +-
> > > >   arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h |  34 +++-
> > > 
> > > These look good to me; but at the same time Kan is sending me
> > > Architectural LBR patches.
> > > 
> > > Kan, if I take these perf patches and stick them in a tip/perf/vlbr
> > > topic branch, can you rebase the arch lbr stuff on top, or is there
> > > anything in the arch-lbr series that badly conflicts with this work?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, I can rebase the arch lbr patches on top of them.
> > Please push the tip/perf/vlbr branch, so I can pull and rebase my patches.
> 
> For now I have:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git perf/vlbr
> 
> Once the 0day robot comes back all-green, I'll push it out to
> tip/perf/vlbr and merge it into tip/perf/core.

tip/perf/vlbr now exists, thanks!