Hello,
This patch against 2.6.20-git14 makes the NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1
instead of PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0 on processors supporting Intel architectural
perfmon, such as Intel Core 2. Although all PMU events can work on
both counters, the Precise Event-Based Sampling (PEBS) requires that the
event be in PERFCTR0 to work correctly (see section 18.14.4.1 in the
IA32 SDM Vol 3b).
A similar patch for x86-64 is to follow.
Changelog:
- make the i386 NMI watchdog use PERFSEL1/PERFCTR1 instead of
PERFSEL0/PERFCTR0
on processors supporting the Intel architectural perfmon (e.g. Core 2
Duo).
This allows PEBS to work when the NMI watchdog is active.
signed-off-by: stephane eranian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -urNp --exclude=.git linux-2.6.20.orig/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
linux-2.6.20.base/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c
--- linux-2.6.20.orig/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c 2007-02-19 13:37:26.000000000
-0800
+++ linux-2.6.20.base/arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c 2007-02-19 13:54:42.000000000
-0800
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog(voi
nmi_hz = 1;
if (wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 ||
- wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR0) {
+ wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR1) {
nmi_hz = adjust_for_32bit_ctr(nmi_hz);
}
}
@@ -741,8 +741,8 @@ static int setup_intel_arch_watchdog(voi
(ebx & ARCH_PERFMON_UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES_PRESENT))
goto fail;
- perfctr_msr = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR0;
- evntsel_msr = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL0;
+ perfctr_msr = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR1;
+ evntsel_msr = MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL1;
if (!reserve_perfctr_nmi(perfctr_msr))
goto fail;
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ __kprobes int nmi_watchdog_tick(struct p
write_watchdog_counter(wd->perfctr_msr, NULL);
}
else if (wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_P6_PERFCTR0 ||
- wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR0) {
+ wd->perfctr_msr == MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_PERFCTR1) {
/* P6 based Pentium M need to re-unmask
* the apic vector but it doesn't hurt
* other P6 variant.
-
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