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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c index f7a0993c1e7..ff751a9f182 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c @@ -770,9 +770,14 @@ static inline int p4_pmu_clear_cccr_ovf(struct hw_perf_event *hwc) return 1; } - /* it might be unflagged overflow */ - rdmsrl(hwc->event_base + hwc->idx, v); - if (!(v & ARCH_P4_CNTRVAL_MASK)) + /* + * In some circumstances the overflow might issue an NMI but did + * not set P4_CCCR_OVF bit. Because a counter holds a negative value + * we simply check for high bit being set, if it's cleared it means + * the counter has reached zero value and continued counting before + * real NMI signal was received: + */ + if (!(v & ARCH_P4_UNFLAGGED_BIT)) return 1; return 0; |