The following patch, relative to 3.6.0-rc3, makes the microcode update code path actually invoke the perf_check_microcode() function and thus potentially renabling SNB PEBS.
By default, CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE is forced to Y in arch/x86/Kconfig. There is no way to disable this. That means that the code path used in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c did not include the call to perf_check_microcode(). Thus, even though the microcode was updated to a version that fixes the SNB PEBS problem, perf_event would still return EOPNOTSUPP when enabling precise sampling. This patch simply adds a call to perf_check_microcode() in the call path used when OLD_INTERFACE=y. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]> --- --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c @@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, if (do_microcode_update(buf, len) == 0) ret = (ssize_t)len; + if (ret > 0) + perf_check_microcode(); + mutex_unlock(µcode_mutex); put_online_cpus(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
