Impact: fix spurious missed counter wakeups
In the case of NMI events, close a race window that can occur if an NMI
hits counter code that temporarily disables+enables a counter, and the NMI
leaks into the disabled section.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make perfcounter NMI and IRQ sequence more robust
Make __smp_perf_counter_interrupt() a bit more conservative: first disable
all counters, then read out the status. Most invocations are because there
are real events, so there's no performance impact.
Code flow gets a bit simpler as well this way.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.
It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.
The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
