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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2013-05-03 14:11:23 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-05-11 07:18:21 -0700
commit1a2d6c494667deb43c5dfca27b719a1446a1d641 (patch)
tree5824733c4c1176769246c7531df08b4fc9a7ceb0 /arch/x86
parent358247fd37fbb17ac043548f0921d45d4f0009e2 (diff)
perf/x86: Blacklist all MEM_*_RETIRED events for Ivy Bridge
commit 741a698f420c34c458294a6accecfbad702a7c52 upstream. Errata BV98 states that all MEM_*_RETIRED events corrupt the counter value of the SMT sibling's counters. Blacklist these events Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503121256.083340271@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-jwra43mujrv1oq9xk6mfe57v@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index cc45deb791b..4a0a462d5e9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -125,10 +125,15 @@ static struct event_constraint intel_ivb_event_constraints[] __read_mostly =
INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x08a3, 0x4), /* CYCLE_ACTIVITY.CYCLES_L1D_PENDING */
INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x0ca3, 0x4), /* CYCLE_ACTIVITY.STALLS_L1D_PENDING */
INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT(0x01c0, 0x2), /* INST_RETIRED.PREC_DIST */
- INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd0, 0xf), /* MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.* */
- INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd1, 0xf), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.* */
- INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd2, 0xf), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_LLC_HIT_RETIRED.* */
- INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd3, 0xf), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_LLC_MISS_RETIRED.* */
+ /*
+ * Errata BV98 -- MEM_*_RETIRED events can leak between counters of SMT
+ * siblings; disable these events because they can corrupt unrelated
+ * counters.
+ */
+ INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd0, 0x0), /* MEM_UOPS_RETIRED.* */
+ INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd1, 0x0), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_RETIRED.* */
+ INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd2, 0x0), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_LLC_HIT_RETIRED.* */
+ INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT(0xd3, 0x0), /* MEM_LOAD_UOPS_LLC_MISS_RETIRED.* */
EVENT_CONSTRAINT_END
};