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Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86"

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This reverts commit 2c95afc1e8.

Stephane reported the following regression:

 > Since Andi added:
 >
 > commit 2c95afc1e8
 > Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
 > Date:   Thu Jun 9 06:14:38 2016 -0700
 >
 >    perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86
 >
 > $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls
 >   <not counted> ....
 >
 > fails systematically because the ref-cycles is now used by the
 > watchdog and given this is a system-wide pinned event, it monopolizes
 > the fixed counter 2 which is the only counter able to measure this event.

Since the next merge window is near, fix the regression for now
by reverting the commit.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Ingo Molnar 2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
parent 46866b59df
commit 44530d588e
3 changed files with 0 additions and 16 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/apic/hw_nmi.c
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@ -18,16 +18,8 @@
#include <linux/nmi.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
int hw_nmi_get_event(void)
{
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
return PERF_COUNT_HW_REF_CPU_CYCLES;
return PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES;
}
u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh)
{
return (u64)(cpu_khz) * 1000 * watchdog_thresh;

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include/linux/nmi.h
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@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ static inline bool trigger_allbutself_cpu_backtrace(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR
u64 hw_nmi_get_sample_period(int watchdog_thresh);
int hw_nmi_get_event(void);
extern int nmi_watchdog_enabled;
extern int soft_watchdog_enabled;
extern int watchdog_user_enabled;

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kernel/watchdog.c
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@ -315,12 +315,6 @@ static int is_softlockup(unsigned long touch_ts)
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
/* Can be overriden by architecture */
__weak int hw_nmi_get_event(void)
{
return PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES;
}
static struct perf_event_attr wd_hw_attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE,
.config = PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES,
@ -610,7 +604,6 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(unsigned int cpu)
wd_attr = &wd_hw_attr;
wd_attr->sample_period = hw_nmi_get_sample_period(watchdog_thresh);
wd_attr->config = hw_nmi_get_event();
/* Try to register using hardware perf events */
event = perf_event_create_kernel_counter(wd_attr, cpu, NULL, watchdog_overflow_callback, NULL);