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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build1
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c27
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
index 465970370f3e..4cd8a16b1b7b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/Build
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ libperf-y += tsc.o
libperf-y += pmu.o
libperf-y += kvm-stat.o
libperf-y += perf_regs.o
+libperf-y += group.o
libperf-$(CONFIG_DWARF) += dwarf-regs.o
libperf-$(CONFIG_BPF_PROLOGUE) += dwarf-regs.o
diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..37f92aa39a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/x86/util/group.c
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "api/fs/fs.h"
+#include "util/group.h"
+
+/*
+ * Check whether we can use a group for top down.
+ * Without a group may get bad results due to multiplexing.
+ */
+bool arch_topdown_check_group(bool *warn)
+{
+ int n;
+
+ if (sysctl__read_int("kernel/nmi_watchdog", &n) < 0)
+ return false;
+ if (n > 0) {
+ *warn = true;
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
+void arch_topdown_group_warn(void)
+{
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "nmi_watchdog enabled with topdown. May give wrong results.\n"
+ "Disable with echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog\n");
+}