perf/x86: Make Intel KNC use full 40-bit width of counters
authorVince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:03:21 +0000 (13:03 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:00:48 +0000 (12:00 +0200)
Early versions of Intel KNC chips have a bug where bits above 32
were not properly set.  We worked around this by only using the
bottom 32 bits (out of 40 that should be available).

It turns out this workaround breaks overflow handling.

The buggy silicon will in theory never be used in production
systems, so remove this workaround so we get proper overflow
support.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: Meadows Lawrence F <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1210171302140.23243@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_knc.c

index 7c46bfd..73bcfbd 100644 (file)
@@ -226,12 +226,11 @@ static __initconst struct x86_pmu knc_pmu = {
        .event_map              = knc_pmu_event_map,
        .max_events             = ARRAY_SIZE(knc_perfmon_event_map),
        .apic                   = 1,
-       .max_period             = (1ULL << 31) - 1,
+       .max_period             = (1ULL << 39) - 1,
        .version                = 0,
        .num_counters           = 2,
-       /* in theory 40 bits, early silicon is buggy though */
-       .cntval_bits            = 32,
-       .cntval_mask            = (1ULL << 32) - 1,
+       .cntval_bits            = 40,
+       .cntval_mask            = (1ULL << 40) - 1,
        .get_event_constraints  = x86_get_event_constraints,
        .event_constraints      = knc_event_constraints,
        .format_attrs           = intel_knc_formats_attr,