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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-12-23 00:41:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-12-23 00:41:14 -0700 |
| commit | cfb13c5db08c90311a5defdde9a0328ee788cca5 (patch) | |
| tree | 842cb60d1d19b99e550fdbc653723e4b13e51ee5 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | |
| parent | 4b6ba8aacbb3185703b797286547d0f8f3859b02 (diff) | |
| parent | 90a8a73c06cc32b609a880d48449d7083327e11a (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc7' into devicetree/next
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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c index ed6310183efb..6d75b9145b13 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c @@ -381,6 +381,20 @@ static void release_pmc_hardware(void) {} #endif +static bool check_hw_exists(void) +{ + u64 val, val_new = 0; + int ret = 0; + + val = 0xabcdUL; + ret |= checking_wrmsrl(x86_pmu.perfctr, val); + ret |= rdmsrl_safe(x86_pmu.perfctr, &val_new); + if (ret || val != val_new) + return false; + + return true; +} + static void reserve_ds_buffers(void); static void release_ds_buffers(void); @@ -1372,6 +1386,12 @@ void __init init_hw_perf_events(void) pmu_check_apic(); + /* sanity check that the hardware exists or is emulated */ + if (!check_hw_exists()) { + pr_cont("Broken PMU hardware detected, software events only.\n"); + return; + } + pr_cont("%s PMU driver.\n", x86_pmu.name); if (x86_pmu.quirks) |