linux/arch/x86
Cyrill Gorcunov 047a3772fe perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling
Don found that P4 PMU reads CCCR register instead of counter
itself (in attempt to catch unflagged event) this makes P4
NMI handler to consume all NMIs it observes. So the other
NMI users such as kgdb simply have no chance to get NMI
on their hands.

Side note: at moment there is no way to run nmi-watchdog
together with perf tool. This is because both 'perf top' and
nmi-watchdog use same event. So while nmi-watchdog reserves
one event/counter for own needs there is no room for perf tool
left (there is a way to disable nmi-watchdog on boot of course).

Ming has tested this patch with the following results

 | 1. watchdog disabled
 |
 | kgdb tests on boot OK
 | perf works OK
 |
 | 2. watchdog enabled, without patch perf-x86-p4-nmi-4
 |
 | kgdb tests on boot hang
 |
 | 3. watchdog enabled, without patch perf-x86-p4-nmi-4 and do not run kgdb
 | tests on boot
 |
 | "perf top" partialy works
 |   cpu-cycles            no
 |   instructions          yes
 |   cache-references      no
 |   cache-misses          no
 |   branch-instructions   no
 |   branch-misses         yes
 |   bus-cycles            no
 |
 | 4. watchdog enabled, with patch perf-x86-p4-nmi-4 applied
 |
 | kgdb tests on boot OK
 | perf does not work, NMI "Dazed and confused" messages show up
 |

Which means we still have problems with p4 box due to 'unknown'
nmi happens but at least it should fix kgdb test cases.

Reported-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D275E7E.3040903@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-09 10:40:52 +01:00
..
boot x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to 2010-12-16 19:11:09 -08:00
configs defconfig reduction 2010-08-14 22:26:53 +02:00
crypto crypto: ghash-intel - ghash-clmulni-intel_glue needs err.h 2010-12-15 19:44:08 +08:00
ia32 BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
include/asm perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling 2011-01-09 10:40:52 +01:00
kernel perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling 2011-01-09 10:40:52 +01:00
kvm KVM: i8259: initialize isr_ack 2011-01-02 11:52:48 +02:00
lguest lguest: populate initial_page_table 2010-12-16 17:03:15 +10:30
lib x86, mem: Optimize memmove for small size and unaligned cases 2010-09-24 18:57:11 -07:00
math-emu x86, fpu: Unbreak FPU emulation 2010-05-10 13:37:16 -07:00
mm Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc5' into perf/core 2010-12-07 07:49:51 +01:00
oprofile x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI 2011-01-07 15:08:53 +01:00
pci x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space 2010-12-17 10:01:17 -08:00
platform x86: UV: Address interrupt/IO port operation conflict 2010-11-18 10:41:25 +01:00
power x86, tsc, sched: Recompute cyc2ns_offset's during resume from sleep states 2010-08-20 14:59:02 +02:00
tools
vdso x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso 2010-12-13 16:08:37 -08:00
video
xen Merge branches 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'perf-fixes-for-linus' and 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-12-08 06:40:59 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86: Add platform directory 2010-10-27 14:30:01 +02:00
Kconfig perf, x86: Fixup Kconfig deps 2010-11-26 15:00:58 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-05-18 08:58:16 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-22 08:54:21 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-10-21 13:06:00 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug 2010-10-29 14:45:29 -04:00