The workaround for Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33012
introduced a read and a write to the MC4 mask msr.
Unfortunatly this MSR is not emulated by the KVM hypervisor
so that the kernel will get a #GP and crashes when applying
this workaround when running inside KVM.
This issue was reported as:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35132
and is fixed with this patch. The change just let the kernel
ignore any #GP it gets while accessing this MSR by using the
_safe msr access methods.
Reported-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .39.x
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
x86, mm: Allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable
x86, NUMA: Trim numa meminfo with max_pfn in a separate loop
x86, NUMA: Rename setup_node_bootmem() to setup_node_data()
x86, NUMA: Enable emulation on 32bit too
x86, NUMA: Enable CONFIG_AMD_NUMA on 32bit too
x86, NUMA: Rename amdtopology_64.c to amdtopology.c
x86, NUMA: Make numa_init_array() static
x86, NUMA: Make 32bit use common NUMA init path
x86, NUMA: Initialize and use remap allocator from setup_node_bootmem()
x86-32, NUMA: Add @start and @end to init_alloc_remap()
x86, NUMA: Remove long 64bit assumption from numa.c
x86, NUMA: Enable build of generic NUMA init code on 32bit
x86, NUMA: Move NUMA init logic from numa_64.c to numa.c
x86-32, NUMA: Update numaq to use new NUMA init protocol
x86-32, NUMA: Replace srat_32.c with srat.c
x86-32, NUMA: implement temporary NUMA init shims
x86, NUMA: Move numa_nodes_parsed to numa.[hc]
x86-32, NUMA: Move get_memcfg_numa() into numa_32.c
x86, NUMA: make srat.c 32bit safe
x86, NUMA: rename srat_64.c to srat.c
...
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, efi: Ensure that the entirity of a region is mapped
x86, efi: Pass a minimal map to SetVirtualAddressMap()
x86, efi: Merge contiguous memory regions of the same type and attribute
x86, efi: Consolidate EFI nx control
x86, efi: Remove virtual-mode SetVirtualAddressMap call
* 'x86-gart-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, gart: Don't enforce GART aperture lower-bound by alignment
* 'x86-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Don't unmask disabled irqs when migrating them
x86: Skip migrating IRQF_PER_CPU irqs in fixup_irqs()
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, mce: Drop the default decoding notifier
x86, MCE: Do not taint when handling correctable errors
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, cpu: Fix detection of Celeron Covington stepping A1 and B0
Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks
x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix fallout caused by max3 conversion
x86, cpu: Change NOP selection for certain Intel CPUs
x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure
x86, percpu: Use ASM_NOP4 instead of hardcoding P6_NOP4
x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family"
Fix up trivial conflicts in alternative handling (commit dc326fca2b
"x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure" removed
some hacky 5-byte instruction stuff, while commit d430d3d7e6 "jump
label: Introduce static_branch() interface" renamed HAVE_JUMP_LABEL to
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL in the code that went away)
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (107 commits)
perf stat: Add more cache-miss percentage printouts
perf stat: Add -d -d and -d -d -d options to show more CPU events
ftrace/kbuild: Add recordmcount files to force full build
ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops
ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers
ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace: Free hash with call_rcu_sched()
ftrace: Have global_ops store the functions that are to be traced
ftrace: Add ops parameter to ftrace_startup/shutdown functions
ftrace: Add enabled_functions file
ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace
ftrace: Separate hash allocation and assignment
ftrace: Create a global_ops to hold the filter and notrace hashes
ftrace: Use hash instead for FTRACE_FL_FILTER
ftrace: Replace FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE flag with a hash of ignored functions
perf bench, x86: Add alternatives-asm.h wrapper
x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address limit
x86, mem: memset_64.S: Optimize memset by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
x86, mem: memmove_64.S: Optimize memmove by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB
...
Enable/disable newly documented SMEP (Supervisor Mode Execution Protection) CPU
feature in kernel. CR4.SMEP (bit 20) is 0 at power-on. If the feature is
supported by CPU (X86_FEATURE_SMEP), enable SMEP by setting CR4.SMEP. New kernel
option nosmep disables the feature even if the feature is supported by CPU.
[ hpa: moved the call to setup_smep() until after the vendor-specific
initialization; that ensures that CPUID features are unmasked. We
will still run it before we have userspace (never mind uncontrolled
userspace). ]
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1305157865-31727-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
If kernel intends to use enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, it must ensure
IA32_MISC_ENABLE.Fast_String_Enable (bit 0) is set and CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0H):
EBX[bit 9] also reports 1.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CPUID leaf 7, subleaf 0 returns the maximum subleaf in EAX, not the
number of subleaves. Since so far only subleaf 0 is defined (and only
the EBX bitfield) we do not need to qualify the test.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305660806-17519-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.36..39
Trying to enable the local APIC timer on early K8 revisions
uncovers a number of other issues with it, in conjunction with
the C1E enter path on AMD. Fixing those causes much more churn
and troubles than the benefit of using that timer brings so
don't enable it on K8 at all, falling back to the original
functionality the kernel had wrt to that.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <Boris.Ostrovsky@amd.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
Cc: Joerg-Volker-Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305636919-31165-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This reverts commit e20a2d205c, as it crashes
certain boxes with specific AMD CPU models.
Moving the lower endpoint of the Erratum 400 check to accomodate
earlier K8 revisions (A-E) opens a can of worms which is simply
not worth to fix properly by tweaking the errata checking
framework:
* missing IntPenging MSR on revisions < CG cause #GP:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130541471818831
* makes earlier revisions use the LAPIC timer instead of the C1E
idle routine which switches to HPET, thus not waking up in
deeper C-states:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/24/20
Therefore, leave the original boundary starting with K8-revF.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steppings A1 and B0 of Celeron Covington are currently misdetected as
Pentium II (Dixon). Fix it by removing the stepping check.
[ hpa: this fixes this specific bug... the CPUID documentation
specifies that the L2 cache size can disambiguate additional CPUs;
this patch does not fix that. ]
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/201105162138.15416.linux@rainbow-software.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We provide two slots to disable cache indices, and have a check to
prevent both slots to be used for the same index.
If the user disables the same index on different subcaches, both slots
will hold the same index, e.g.
$ echo 2047 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index3/cache_disable_0
2047
$ echo 1050623 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index3/cache_disable_1
2047
due to the fact that the check was looking only at index bits [11:0]
and was ignoring writes to bits outside that range. The more correct
fix is to simply check whether the index is within the bounds of
[0..l3->indices].
While at it, cleanup comments and drop now-unused local macros.
Signed-off-by: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-3-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
732eacc054 converted code around the
kernel using nested max() macros to use the new max3 macro but forgot to
remove the old line in intel_cacheinfo.c. Fix it.
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Frank Arnold <farnold@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch fixes a bug reported by a customer, who found
that many unreasonable error interrupts reported on all
non-boot CPUs (APs) during the system boot stage.
According to Chapter 10 of Intel Software Developer Manual
Volume 3A, Local APIC may signal an illegal vector error when
an LVT entry is set as an illegal vector value (0~15) under
FIXED delivery mode (bits 8-11 is 0), regardless of whether
the mask bit is set or an interrupt actually happen. These
errors are seen as error interrupts.
The initial value of thermal LVT entries on all APs always reads
0x10000 because APs are woken up by BSP issuing INIT-SIPI-SIPI
sequence to them and LVT registers are reset to 0s except for
the mask bits which are set to 1s when APs receive INIT IPI.
When the BIOS takes over the thermal throttling interrupt,
the LVT thermal deliver mode should be SMI and it is required
from the kernel to keep AP's LVT thermal monitoring register
programmed as such as well.
This issue happens when BIOS does not take over thermal throttling
interrupt, AP's LVT thermal monitor register will be restored to
0x10000 which means vector 0 and fixed deliver mode, so all APs will
signal illegal vector error interrupts.
This patch check if interrupt delivery mode is not fixed mode before
restoring AP's LVT thermal monitor register.
Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: joe@perches.com
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com
Cc: trenn@suse.de
Cc: kent.liu@intel.com
Cc: chaohong.guo@intel.com
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # As far back as possible
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303402963-17738-1-git-send-email-youquan.song@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
b may be added to a list, but is not removed before being freed
in the case of an error. This is done in the corresponding
deallocation function, so the code here has been changed to
follow that.
The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression E,E1,E2;
identifier l;
@@
*list_add(&E->l,E1);
... when != E1
when != list_del(&E->l)
when != list_del_init(&E->l)
when != E = E2
*kfree(E);// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305294731-12127-1-git-send-email-julia@diku.dk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Both warning and warning_symbol are nowhere used.
Let's get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305205872-10321-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The Intel Nehalem offcore bits implemented in:
e994d7d23a: perf: Fix LLC-* events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere
... are wrong: they implemented _ACCESS as _HIT and counted OTHER_CORE_HIT* as
MISS even though its clearly documented as an L3 hit ...
Fix them and the Westmere definitions as well.
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1299119690-13991-3-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extend the Intel SandyBridge PMU driver with definitions
for generic front-end and back-end stall events.
( As commit 3011203 "perf events, x86: Add Westmere stalled-cycles-frontend/backend
events" says, these are only approximations. )
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304666042-17577-1-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With dynamic debug having gained the capability to report debug messages
also during the boot process, it offers a far superior interface for
debug messages than the custom cpufreq infrastructure. As a first step,
remove the old cpufreq_debug_printk() function and replace it with a call
to the generic pr_debug() function.
How can dynamic debug be used on cpufreq? You need a kernel which has
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG enabled.
To enabled debugging during runtime, mount debugfs and
$ echo -n 'module cpufreq +p' > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
for debugging the complete "cpufreq" module. To achieve the same goal during
boot, append
ddebug_query="module cpufreq +p"
as a boot parameter to the kernel of your choice.
For more detailled instructions, please see
Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
UUID needs to be written out the way it is described in
Sec 18.5.124 of ACPI 4.0a Specification.
Platform firmware's use of this UUID/_OSC is optional, which is
why we didn't notice this bug earlier.
Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar <nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Merge reason: Pick up the following two fix commits.
2be19102b7: x86, NUMA: Fix empty memblk detection in numa_cleanup_meminfo()
765af22da8: x86-32, NUMA: Fix ACPI NUMA init broken by recent x86-64 change
Scheduled NUMA init 32/64bit unification changes depend on these.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Older AMD K8 processors (Revisions A-E) are affected by erratum
400 (APIC timer interrupts don't occur in C states greater than
C1). This, for example, means that X86_FEATURE_ARAT flag should
not be set for these parts.
This addresses regression introduced by commit
b87cf80af3 ("x86, AMD: Set ARAT
feature on AMD processors") where the system may become
unresponsive until external interrupt (such as keyboard input)
occurs. This results, for example, in time not being reported
correctly, lack of progress on the system and other lockups.
Reported-by: Joerg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Tested-by: Joerg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <Boris.Ostrovsky@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304113663-6586-1-git-send-email-ostr@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extend the Intel Westmere PMU driver with definitions for generic front-end and
back-end stall events.
( These are only approximations. )
Reported-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n008io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Extend the Intel and AMD event definitions with generic front-end and
back-end stall events.
( These are only approximations - suggestions are welcome for better events. )
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n001io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add two generic hardware events: front-end and back-end stalled cycles.
These events measure conditions when the CPU is executing code but its
capabilities are not fully utilized. Understanding such situations and
analyzing them is an important sub-task of code optimization workflows.
Both events limit performance: most front end stalls tend to be caused
by branch misprediction or instruction fetch cachemisses, backend
stalls can be caused by various resource shortages or inefficient
instruction scheduling.
Front-end stalls are the more important ones: code cannot run fast
if the instruction stream is not being kept up.
An over-utilized back-end can cause front-end stalls and thus
has to be kept an eye on as well.
The exact composition is very program logic and instruction mix
dependent.
We use the terms 'stall', 'front-end' and 'back-end' loosely and
try to use the best available events from specific CPUs that
approximate these concepts.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n000io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the UOPS_EXECUTED.*,c=1,i=1 event on Intel CPUs - it is a rather
good indicator of CPU execution stalls, more sensitive and more inclusive
than the 0xa2 resource stalls event (which does not count nearly as many
stall types).
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn2dsrm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It was noticed that P4 machines were generating double NMIs for
each perf event. These extra NMIs lead to 'Dazed and confused'
messages on the screen.
I tracked this down to a P4 quirk that said the overflow bit had
to be cleared before re-enabling the apic LVT mask. My first
attempt was to move the un-masking inside the perf nmi handler
from before the chipset NMI handler to after.
This broke Nehalem boxes that seem to like the unmasking before
the counters themselves are re-enabled.
In order to keep this change simple for 2.6.39, I decided to
just simply move the apic LVT un-masking to the beginning of all
the chipset NMI handlers, with the exception of Pentium4's to
fix the double NMI issue.
Later on we can move the un-masking to later in the handlers to
save a number of 'extra' NMIs on those particular chipsets.
I tested this change on a P4 machine, an AMD machine, a Nehalem
box, and a core2quad box. 'perf top' worked correctly along
with various other small 'perf record' runs. Anything high
stress breaks all the machines but that is a different problem.
Thanks to various people for testing different versions of this
patch.
Reported-and-tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303900353-10242-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CC: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate
cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a
cache-miss or some other condition.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
On Nehalem CPUs the retired branch-misses event can be completely bogus,
when there are no branch-misses occuring. When there are a lot of branch
misses then the count is pretty accurate. Still, this leaves us with an
event that over-counts a lot.
Detect this erratum and work it around by using BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY events.
These will also count speculated branches but still it's a lot more
precise in practice than the architectural event.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yyfg0bxo9jsqxd6a0ovfny27@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently the x86 backend incorrectly assumes that any BRANCH_INSN
with sample_period==1 is a BTS request. This is not true when we do
frequency driven profiling such as 'perf record -e branches'.
Solves this error:
$ perf record -e branches ./array
Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not supported).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rd2y4ct71hjawzz6fpvsy9hg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It's not enough to simply disable event on overflow the
cpuc->active_mask should be cleared as well otherwise counter
may stall in "active" even in real being already disabled (which
potentially may lead to the situation that user may not use this
counter further).
Don pointed out that:
" I also noticed this patch fixed some unknown NMIs
on a P4 when I stressed the box".
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1303398203-2918-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Andi Kleen pointed out that the Intel offcore support patches were merged
without user-space tool support to the functionality:
|
| The offcore_msr perf kernel code was merged into 2.6.39-rc*, but the
| user space bits were not. This made it impossible to set the extra mask
| and actually do the OFFCORE profiling
|
Andi submitted a preliminary patch for user-space support, as an
extension to perf's raw event syntax:
|
| Some raw events -- like the Intel OFFCORE events -- support additional
| parameters. These can be appended after a ':'.
|
| For example on a multi socket Intel Nehalem:
|
| perf stat -e r1b7:20ff -a sleep 1
|
| Profile the OFFCORE_RESPONSE.ANY_REQUEST with event mask REMOTE_DRAM_0
| that measures any access to DRAM on another socket.
|
But this kind of usability is absolutely unacceptable - users should not
be expected to type in magic, CPU and model specific incantations to get
access to useful hardware functionality.
The proper solution is to expose useful offcore functionality via
generalized events - that way users do not have to care which specific
CPU model they are using, they can use the conceptual event and not some
model specific quirky hexa number.
We already have such generalization in place for CPU cache events,
and it's all very extensible.
"Offcore" events measure general DRAM access patters along various
parameters. They are particularly useful in NUMA systems.
We want to support them via generalized DRAM events: either as the
fourth level of cache (after the last-level cache), or as a separate
generalization category.
That way user-space support would be very obvious, memory access
profiling could be done via self-explanatory commands like:
perf record -e dram ./myapp
perf record -e dram-remote ./myapp
... to measure DRAM accesses or more expensive cross-node NUMA DRAM
accesses.
These generalized events would work on all CPUs and architectures that
have comparable PMU features.
( Note, these are just examples: actual implementation could have more
sophistication and more parameter - as long as they center around
similarly simple usecases. )
Now we do not want to revert *all* of the current offcore bits, as they
are still somewhat useful for generic last-level-cache events, implemented
in this commit:
e994d7d23a: perf: Fix LLC-* events on Intel Nehalem/Westmere
But we definitely do not yet want to expose the unstructured raw events
to user-space, until better generalization and usability is implemented
for these hardware event features.
( Note: after generalization has been implemented raw offcore events can be
supported as well: there can always be an odd event that is marginally
useful but not useful enough to generalize. DRAM profiling is definitely
*not* such a category so generalization must be done first. )
Furthermore, PERF_TYPE_RAW access to these registers was not intended
to go upstream without proper support - it was a side-effect of the above
e994d7d23a commit, not mentioned in the changelog.
As v2.6.39 is nearing release we go for the simplest approach: disable
the PERF_TYPE_RAW offcore hack for now, before it escapes into a released
kernel and becomes an ABI.
Once proper structure is implemented for these hardware events and users
are offered usable solutions we can revisit this issue.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1302658203-4239-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The default notifier doesn't make a lot of sense to call in the
correctable errors case. Drop it and emit the mcelog decoding
hint only in the uncorrectable errors case and when no notifier
is registered. Also, limit issuing the "mcelog --ascii" message
in the rare case when we dump unreported CEs before panicking.
While at it, remove unused old x86_mce_decode_callback from the
header.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Nagananda Chumbalkar <Nagananda.Chumbalkar@hp.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110420102349.GB1361@aftab
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
