linux/arch/x86
Andi Kleen 2dbf0116aa perf/x86/intel: Avoid checkpointed counters causing excessive TSX aborts
With checkpointed counters there can be a situation where the counter
is overflowing, aborts the transaction, is set back to a non overflowing
checkpoint, causes interupt. The interrupt doesn't see the overflow
because it has been checkpointed.  This is then a spurious PMI, typically with
a ugly NMI message.  It can also lead to excessive aborts.

Avoid this problem by:

- Using the full counter width for counting counters (earlier patch)

- Forbid sampling for checkpointed counters. It's not too useful anyways,
  checkpointing is mainly for counting. The check is approximate
  (to still handle KVM), but should catch the majority of cases.

- On a PMI always set back checkpointed counters to zero.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1378438661-24765-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-09-12 19:13:33 +02:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 09:38:10 -07:00
configs x86, platform, kvm, kconfig: Turn existing .config's into KVM-capable configs 2013-05-28 12:11:32 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-07-24 11:05:18 -07:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 11:08:32 -07:00
include Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 11:55:10 -07:00
kernel perf/x86/intel: Avoid checkpointed counters causing excessive TSX aborts 2013-09-12 19:13:33 +02:00
kvm KVM: MMU: avoid fast page fault fixing mmio page fault 2013-07-18 12:26:57 +02:00
lguest Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 11:08:32 -07:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 09:39:26 -07:00
net x86: bpf_jit_comp: secure bpf jit against spraying attacks 2013-05-19 23:55:41 -07:00
oprofile
pci PCI changes for the v3.12 merge window: 2013-09-03 16:24:35 -07:00
platform arch/x86/platform/ce4100/ce4100.c: include reboot.h 2013-07-31 14:41:02 -07:00
power x86, asmlinkage, power: Make various symbols used by the suspend asm code visible 2013-08-06 14:21:03 -07:00
realmode x86, relocs: Refactor the relocs tool to merge 32- and 64-bit ELF 2013-04-16 16:02:58 -07:00
syscalls unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE 2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 08:39:38 -07:00
um um: remove dead code 2013-07-19 11:35:32 +02:00
vdso x86/vdso: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2013-06-19 15:06:09 +02:00
video
xen Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 11:55:10 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-09-04 11:55:10 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'kconfig-diet' from Dave Hansen 2013-07-04 11:25:51 -07:00
Makefile x86, relocs: Move ELF relocation handling to C 2013-08-07 21:00:04 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um