linux/arch/x86
Stephane Eranian e3e45c01ae perf/x86: Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS
The following patch makes the microcode update code path
actually invoke the perf_check_microcode() function and
thus potentially renabling SNB PEBS.

By default, CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE is
forced to Y in arch/x86/Kconfig. There is no
way to disable this. That means that the code
path used in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
did not include the call to perf_check_microcode().

Thus, even though the microcode was updated to a
version that fixes the SNB PEBS problem, perf_event
would still return EOPNOTSUPP when enabling precise
sampling.

This patch simply adds a call to perf_check_microcode()
in the call path used when OLD_INTERFACE=y.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824133434.GA8014@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-27 08:48:19 +02:00
..
boot x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
configs x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs 2012-03-24 08:18:03 +01:00
crypto crypto: twofish-avx - remove useless instruction 2012-07-11 11:08:30 +08:00
ia32 x86, compat: Use test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) in compat signal delivery 2012-06-14 18:16:04 -07:00
include/asm x86/spinlocks: Fix comment in spinlock.h 2012-08-22 09:52:47 +02:00
kernel perf/x86: Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS 2012-08-27 08:48:19 +02:00
kvm KVM: x86 emulator: use stack size attribute to mask rsp in stack ops 2012-08-22 18:54:26 -03:00
lguest lguest: Make sure interrupt is allocated ok by lguest_setup_irq 2012-01-12 15:44:47 +10:30
lib Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into perf/core 2012-07-05 21:12:11 +02:00
math-emu x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct 2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
mm mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd 2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
net x86 bpf_jit: support BPF_S_ANC_ALU_XOR_X instruction 2012-06-06 09:42:44 -07:00
oprofile perf/x86/amd: Unify AMD's generic and family 15h pmus 2012-07-05 21:19:41 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'pci/myron-pcibios_setup' into next 2012-07-05 15:31:05 -06:00
platform Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" 2012-08-14 09:58:25 -07:00
power x86, kvm: Call restore_sched_clock_state() only after %gs is initialized 2012-04-02 13:53:00 +02:00
realmode x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
syscalls x32: Use compat shims for {g,s}etsockopt 2012-08-18 14:15:39 -07:00
tools x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix 2012-06-06 08:54:18 +02:00
um um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs 2012-08-01 23:33:16 +02:00
vdso x86, cpu: Rename checking_wrmsrl() to wrmsrl_safe() 2012-06-07 13:32:04 -07:00
video x86: Use vga_default_device() when determining whether an fb is primary 2012-04-24 09:50:17 +01:00
xen Three bug-fixes: 2012-08-25 17:31:59 -07:00
.gitignore x86/kprobes: Add arch/x86/tools/insn_sanity to .gitignore 2012-01-16 08:21:59 +01:00
Kbuild x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure 2012-05-08 11:41:48 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-08-03 10:59:36 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32 2012-03-08 10:57:34 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs 2012-06-27 19:29:10 -07:00
Makefile x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: fix linker script generation 2012-04-09 13:59:00 -04:00