linux/arch/x86/events
Imre Palik f92b760414 perf/x86/intel: Honour the CPUID for number of fixed counters in hypervisors
perf doesn't seem to honour the number of fixed counters specified by CPUID
leaf 0xa. It always assumes that Intel CPUs have at least 3 fixed counters.

So if some of the fixed counters are masked out by the hypervisor, it still
tries to check/set them.

This patch makes perf behave nicer when the kernel is running under a
hypervisor that doesn't expose all the counters.

This patch contains some ideas from Matt Wilson.

Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Kozyrev <alexander.kozyrev@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Artyom Kuanbekov <artyom.kuanbekov@intel.com>
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477037939-15605-1-git-send-email-imrep.amz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-28 11:06:25 +02:00
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amd perf/x86/amd: Make HW_CACHE_REFERENCES and HW_CACHE_MISSES measure L2 2016-09-16 16:19:49 +02:00
intel perf/x86/intel: Honour the CPUID for number of fixed counters in hypervisors 2016-10-28 11:06:25 +02:00
core.c Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-10-03 16:13:28 -07:00
Kconfig perf/x86: Move Kconfig.perf and other perf configuration bits to events/Kconfig 2016-03-31 10:30:40 +02:00
Makefile x86/perf/intel/uncore: Make the Intel uncore PMU driver modular 2016-03-31 10:30:34 +02:00
msr.c Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-07-30 12:56:26 -07:00
perf_event.h perf/x86/intel: Clean up LBR state tracking 2016-08-10 13:13:27 +02:00