Re: [PATCH] x86, perf, nmi: Disable perf if counters are not accessable

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 16:55 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> +static bool check_hw_exists(void)
> +{
> +       u64 val, val_new;
> +
> +       val = 0xabcdUL;
> +       (void) checking_wrmsrl(x86_pmu.perfctr, val);
> +       rdmsrl_safe(x86_pmu.perfctr, &val_new);
> +       if (val != val_new)
> +               return false;
> +
> +       return true;
> +} 

If I can make any sense of the implementation of native_read_msr_safe()
then I think it doesn't actually sets val_new in case it faults, it just
returns -EIO.

So I changed it to:

static bool check_hw_exists(void)
{
        u64 val, val_new = 0;
        int ret = 0;

        val = 0xabcdUL;
        ret |= checking_wrmsrl(x86_pmu.perfctr, val);
        ret |= rdmsrl_safe(x86_pmu.perfctr, &val_new);
        if (ret || val != val_new)
                return false;

        return true;
}

And have applied the patch,

Thanks Don!