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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200
commitd033a308d81ec83908760a15a841c2bd0d5e0ea3 (patch)
tree647abd67987fe4d7fee80105fc823edf3f53b4f6 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
parentc6c22955f80f2db9614b01fe5a3d1cfcd8b3d848 (diff)
parente23739b4ade80a3a7f87198f008f6c44a7cbc9fd (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8
* linus/master: (1428 commits) futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period() writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID Linux 3.7-rc7 powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition bnx2x: remove redundant warning log vxlan: fix command usage in its doc 8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver" MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 915b876edd1e..4a3374e61a93 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -208,12 +208,14 @@ static bool check_hw_exists(void)
}
/*
- * Now write a value and read it back to see if it matches,
- * this is needed to detect certain hardware emulators (qemu/kvm)
- * that don't trap on the MSR access and always return 0s.
+ * Read the current value, change it and read it back to see if it
+ * matches, this is needed to detect certain hardware emulators
+ * (qemu/kvm) that don't trap on the MSR access and always return 0s.
*/
- val = 0xabcdUL;
reg = x86_pmu_event_addr(0);
+ if (rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val))
+ goto msr_fail;
+ val ^= 0xffffUL;
ret = wrmsrl_safe(reg, val);
ret |= rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val_new);
if (ret || val != val_new)
@@ -338,6 +340,9 @@ int x86_setup_perfctr(struct perf_event *event)
/* BTS is currently only allowed for user-mode. */
if (!attr->exclude_kernel)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+ if (!attr->exclude_guest)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
hwc->config |= config;
@@ -380,6 +385,9 @@ int x86_pmu_hw_config(struct perf_event *event)
if (event->attr.precise_ip) {
int precise = 0;
+ if (!event->attr.exclude_guest)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
/* Support for constant skid */
if (x86_pmu.pebs_active && !x86_pmu.pebs_broken) {
precise++;