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perf/x86/intel: Use PAGE_SIZE for PEBS buffer size on Core2
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:03:52 +0000 (20:03 +0100)
committerTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:28:42 +0000 (10:28 +0100)
commit4f9648161efdd9ad7cb76b5062d644c805d9c2df
tree8ae1ee3f8d88f3c99235fd73208995a1e4cf630b
parent8048cdbd05adf2d2fb0b604ab8a76282ec68aa1c
perf/x86/intel: Use PAGE_SIZE for PEBS buffer size on Core2

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1559914
Using PAGE_SIZE buffers makes the WRMSR to PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL in
intel_pmu_enable_all() mysteriously hang on Core2. As a workaround, we
don't do this.

The hard lockup is easily triggered by running 'perf test attr'
repeatedly. Most of the time it gets stuck on sample session with
small periods.

  # perf test attr -vv
  14: struct perf_event_attr setup                             :
  --- start ---
  ...
    'PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp/tmpuEKz3B /usr/bin/perf record -o /tmp/tmpuEKz3B/perf.data -c 123 kill >/dev/null 2>&1' ret 1

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160301190352.GA8355@krava.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit e72daf3f4d764c47fb71c9bdc7f9c54a503825b1)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c
arch/x86/events/perf_event.h