perf/x86/intel: Honour the CPUID for number of fixed counters in hypervisors
authorImre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 08:18:59 +0000 (01:18 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:06:25 +0000 (11:06 +0200)
commitf92b7604149a55cb601fc0b52911b1e11f0f2514
tree50645171418cf4b059f559ee5f69eadff23211fc
parent5aab90ce1ec449912a2ebc4d45e0c85dac29e9dd
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>
arch/x86/events/intel/core.c