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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-29 08:46:28 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-29 08:46:28 -0700
commit94b086b243e112030b815b76e61de6523e6fc700 (patch)
tree3c7f2308e7e5afdb276a858c4960754168a92d8c /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
parent967857dfd990081f6702daebc6c9bc6f4ba7a39e (diff)
parent8f0d8163b50e01f398b14bcd4dc039ac5ab18d64 (diff)
Merge 3.7-rc3 into driver-core-next
This pulls in the various driver core changes that were in 3.7-rc3 into the driver-core-next branch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 3373f84d139..4a3374e61a9 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)