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authorYong Wang <yong.y.wang@linux.intel.com>2009-06-12 16:08:55 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-12 13:48:32 +0200
commitdff5da6d09daaab40a8741dce0ed3c2e94079de2 (patch)
treec1f4ce70e4a566a231ba00c775de4e96fb8acb39 /arch/x86
parentfaafec1e61e61d350248af2a7e5f047606adab6e (diff)
perf_counter/x86: Add a quirk for Atom processors
The fixed-function performance counters do not work on current Atom processors. Use the general-purpose ones instead. Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090612080855.GA2286@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index 895c82e7845..275bc142cd5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -968,6 +968,13 @@ fixed_mode_idx(struct perf_counter *counter, struct hw_perf_counter *hwc)
if (!x86_pmu.num_counters_fixed)
return -1;
+ /*
+ * Quirk, IA32_FIXED_CTRs do not work on current Atom processors:
+ */
+ if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL &&
+ boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 28)
+ return -1;
+
event = hwc->config & ARCH_PERFMON_EVENT_MASK;
if (unlikely(event == x86_pmu.event_map(PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS)))