From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: junk@eslaf.co.uk
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf,x86,p6: Add userspace RDPMC quirk for P6
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 11:27:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205102718.GF3229@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
Subject: perf,x86,p6: Add userspace RDPMC quirk for P6
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Feb 5 11:17:46 CET 2014
P6 class machines can die hard when PCE gets enabled due to CPU
errata. The safe way it so disable it by default and keep it disabled.
See errata 26:
http://download.intel.com/design/archives/processors/pro/docs/24268935.pdf
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Reported-by: Mark Davies <junk@eslaf.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 6 +++++-
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1521,6 +1521,8 @@ static int __init init_hw_perf_events(vo
pr_cont("%s PMU driver.\n", x86_pmu.name);
+ x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc = 1; /* enable userspace RDPMC usage by default */
+
for (quirk = x86_pmu.quirks; quirk; quirk = quirk->next)
quirk->func();
@@ -1534,7 +1536,6 @@ static int __init init_hw_perf_events(vo
__EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0, (1ULL << x86_pmu.num_counters) - 1,
0, x86_pmu.num_counters, 0, 0);
- x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc = 1; /* enable userspace RDPMC usage by default */
x86_pmu_format_group.attrs = x86_pmu.format_attrs;
if (x86_pmu.event_attrs)
@@ -1820,6 +1821,9 @@ static ssize_t set_attr_rdpmc(struct dev
if (ret)
return ret;
+ if (x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc_broken)
+ return -ENOTSUPP;
+
if (!!val != !!x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc) {
x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc = !!val;
smp_call_function(change_rdpmc, (void *)val, 1);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ struct x86_pmu {
/*
* sysfs attrs
*/
+ int attr_rdpmc_broken;
int attr_rdpmc;
struct attribute **format_attrs;
struct attribute **event_attrs;
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p6.c
@@ -231,6 +231,13 @@ static __initconst const struct x86_pmu
};
+static __init void p6_pmu_rdpmc_quirk(void)
+{
+ pr_warn("Userspace RDPMC support disabled due to CPU errata\n");
+ x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc_broken = 1;
+ x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc = 0;
+}
+
__init int p6_pmu_init(void)
{
switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_model) {
@@ -256,6 +263,7 @@ __init int p6_pmu_init(void)
memcpy(hw_cache_event_ids, p6_hw_cache_event_ids,
sizeof(hw_cache_event_ids));
+ x86_add_quirk(p6_pmu_rdpmc_quirk);
return 0;
}
next reply other threads:[~2014-02-05 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-05 10:27 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2014-02-05 19:16 ` [PATCH] perf,x86,p6: Add userspace RDPMC quirk for P6 Vince Weaver
2014-02-05 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-05 19:29 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-05 19:37 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-05 19:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-05 20:04 ` Vince Weaver
2014-02-05 20:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-05 19:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-05 19:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-06 19:41 ` Mark Davies
2014-02-06 20:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-06 22:15 ` Mark Davies
2014-02-07 7:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
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