linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Ingo Molnar 45daae575e perf, x86: Complain louder about BIOSen corrupting CPU/PMU state and continue
Eric Dumazet reported that hardware PMU events do not work on his
system, due to the BIOS corrupting PMU state:

    Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Broken BIOS detected, using software events only.
    [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 186 is 43003c)

Linus suggested that we continue in the face of such BIOS-induced CPU
state corruption:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/24/608

Such BIOSes will have to be fixed - Linux developers rely on a working and
fully capable PMU and the BIOS interfering with the CPU's PMU state is simply
not acceptable.

So this patch changes perf to continue when it detects such BIOS
interaction, some hardware events may be unreliable due to the BIOS
writing and re-writing them - there's not much the kernel can do
about that but to detect the corruption and report it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-25 11:23:41 +01:00
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alpha Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
arm Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
avr32 avr32: add missing include causing undefined pgtable_page_* references 2011-01-26 12:35:15 +01:00
blackfin Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
h8300 h8300: Switch do_timer() to xtime_update() 2011-01-31 14:55:45 +01:00
ia64 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
m68knommu Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 20:01:36 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:23:52 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
powerpc perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-03-16 14:04:13 +01:00
s390 Merge branch 'core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into perf/urgent 2011-03-17 13:38:41 +01:00
score score: Use generic irq Kconfig 2011-01-21 11:55:34 +01:00
sh Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:28:30 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
tile futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types 2011-03-11 12:23:31 +01:00
um Merge branch 'um-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 19:40:35 -07:00
x86 perf, x86: Complain louder about BIOSen corrupting CPU/PMU state and continue 2011-03-25 11:23:41 +01:00
xtensa Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-03-15 18:53:35 -07:00
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Kconfig oprofile, s390: Cleanups 2011-03-16 14:30:40 +01:00