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authorKim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>2020-02-19 18:52:43 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-02-28 16:38:48 +0100
commitf28ec250579cb3094684908d67f2384627799676 (patch)
tree1d9d2db466af124bf83fcb24b94d8098758702e3 /include
parent5e5b443ae6cc0b3ec4744435af475e5fe60311f8 (diff)
x86/cpu/amd: Enable the fixed Instructions Retired counter IRPERF
commit 21b5ee59ef18e27d85810584caf1f7ddc705ea83 upstream. Commit aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired) performance counter") added support for access to the free-running counter via 'perf -e msr/irperf/', but when exercised, it always returns a 0 count: BEFORE: $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true Performance counter stats for 'true': 624,833 instructions 0 msr/irperf/ Simply set its enable bit - HWCR bit 30 - to make it start counting. Enablement is restricted to all machines advertising IRPERF capability, except those susceptible to an erratum that makes the IRPERF return bad values. That erratum occurs in Family 17h models 00-1fh [1], but not in F17h models 20h and above [2]. AFTER (on a family 17h model 31h machine): $ perf stat -e instructions,msr/irperf/ true Performance counter stats for 'true': 621,690 instructions 622,490 msr/irperf/ [1] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 00h-0Fh Processors [2] Revision Guide for AMD Family 17h Models 30h-3Fh Processors The revision guides are available from the bugzilla Link below. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Fixes: aaf248848db50 ("perf/x86/msr: Add AMD IRPERF (Instructions Retired) performance counter") Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214201805.13830-1-kim.phillips@amd.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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