Patch "perf/x86/intel/uncore: Remove SBOX support for BDX-DE" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf/x86/intel/uncore: Remove SBOX support for BDX-DE

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     0002-perf-x86-intel-uncore-Remove-SBOX-support-for-BDX-DE.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e178b147e530c12a95871e78569554666fe01c0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 05:07:43 -0500
Subject: perf/x86/intel/uncore: Remove SBOX support for BDX-DE

From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>

commit e178b147e530c12a95871e78569554666fe01c0f upstream.

BDX-DE and BDX-EP share the same uncore code path. But there is no sbox
in BDX-DE. This patch remove SBOX support for BDX-DE.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/37D7C6CF3E00A74B8858931C1DB2F0770589D336@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore_snbep.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore_snbep.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore_snbep.c
@@ -2875,11 +2875,13 @@ static struct intel_uncore_type bdx_unco
 	.format_group		= &hswep_uncore_sbox_format_group,
 };
 
+#define BDX_MSR_UNCORE_SBOX	3
+
 static struct intel_uncore_type *bdx_msr_uncores[] = {
 	&bdx_uncore_ubox,
 	&bdx_uncore_cbox,
-	&bdx_uncore_sbox,
 	&hswep_uncore_pcu,
+	&bdx_uncore_sbox,
 	NULL,
 };
 
@@ -2888,6 +2890,10 @@ void bdx_uncore_cpu_init(void)
 	if (bdx_uncore_cbox.num_boxes > boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores)
 		bdx_uncore_cbox.num_boxes = boot_cpu_data.x86_max_cores;
 	uncore_msr_uncores = bdx_msr_uncores;
+
+	/* BDX-DE doesn't have SBOX */
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 86)
+		uncore_msr_uncores[BDX_MSR_UNCORE_SBOX] = NULL;
 }
 
 static struct intel_uncore_type bdx_uncore_ha = {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kan.liang@intel.com are

queue-4.5/0003-perf-x86-intel-Fix-PEBS-warning-by-only-restoring-ac.patch
queue-4.5/0004-perf-x86-intel-Use-PAGE_SIZE-for-PEBS-buffer-size-on.patch
queue-4.5/perf-x86-intel-add-definition-for-pt-pmi-bit.patch
queue-4.5/0002-perf-x86-intel-uncore-Remove-SBOX-support-for-BDX-DE.patch
queue-4.5/0001-perf-x86-pebs-Add-workaround-for-broken-OVFL-status-.patch