Re: [PATCH 4/9] perf/x86/intel: Support hardware TopDown metrics

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue May 28 2019 - 09:52:21 EST


On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:40:50PM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index b980b9e95d2a..0d7081434d1d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ struct hw_perf_event {
>
> struct hw_perf_event_extra extra_reg;
> struct hw_perf_event_extra branch_reg;
> +
> + u64 saved_metric;
> + u64 saved_slots;
> + u64 last_slots;
> + u64 last_metric;

This is really sad, and I'm thinking much of that really isn't needed
anyway, due to how you're not using some of the other fields.

> };
> struct { /* software */
> struct hrtimer hrtimer;
> --
> 2.14.5
>