perf doesn't seem to honour the number of fixed counters specified by CPUID
leaf 0xa. It always assumes that Intel CPUs have at least 3 fixed counters.
So if some of the fixed counters are masked out by the hypervisor, it still
tries to check/set them.
This patch makes perf behave nicer when the kernel is running under a
hypervisor that doesn't expose all the counters.
This patch contains some ideas from Matt Wilson.
Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Kozyrev <alexander.kozyrev@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Artyom Kuanbekov <artyom.kuanbekov@intel.com>
Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477037939-15605-1-git-send-email-imrep.amz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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