linux/arch
Borislav Petkov c98fdeaa92 x86/sched/perf/AMD: Set sched_clock_stable
Stephane Eranian reported that doing a scheduler latency
measurements with perf on AMD doesn't work out as expected due
to the fact that the sched_clock() granularity is too coarse,
i.e. done in jiffies due to the sched_clock_stable not set,
which, if set, would mean that we get to use the TSC as sample
source which would give us much higher precision.

However, there's no reason not to set sched_clock_stable on AMD
because all families from F10h and upwards do have an invariant
TSC and have the CPUID flag to prove (CPUID_8000_0007_EDX[8]).

Make it so, #1.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120206132546.GA30854@quad
[ Should any non-standard system break the TSC, we should
  mark them so explicitly, in their platform init handler, or
  in a DMI quirk. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-02-07 13:12:08 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
arm Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-02-06 19:11:02 -02:00
avr32 treewide: remove useless NORET_TYPE macro and uses 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
c6x C6X: replace tick_nohz_stop/restart_sched_tick calls 2012-01-08 15:13:16 -05:00
cris lib: use generic pci_iomap on all architectures 2012-01-10 18:04:27 -08:00
frv Merge branch 'perf/fast' into perf/core 2012-01-27 12:08:09 +01:00
h8300 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
hexagon Merge branch 'perf/fast' into perf/core 2012-01-27 12:08:09 +01:00
ia64 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-01-18 15:51:48 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k 2012-01-26 12:43:57 -08:00
microblaze Revert "microblaze: Add topology init" 2012-01-31 09:06:52 +01:00
mips Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
openrisc Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-01-16 14:34:54 -08:00
parisc parisc, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS) 2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perf/fast' into perf/core 2012-01-27 12:08:09 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2012-02-06 19:11:02 -02:00
score score: fix off-by-one index into syscall table 2012-01-23 08:38:49 -08:00
sh Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
sparc lib: Fix multiple definitions of clz_tab 2012-02-02 10:34:23 +11:00
tile Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers 2012-01-14 18:03:30 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit 2012-01-17 16:41:31 -08:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci 2012-01-11 18:50:26 -08:00
x86 x86/sched/perf/AMD: Set sched_clock_stable 2012-02-07 13:12:08 +01:00
xtensa audit: inline audit_syscall_entry to reduce burden on archs 2012-01-17 16:16:56 -05:00
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Kconfig mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00