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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-27 14:13:33 (GMT)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-08-27 14:13:33 (GMT)
commite372dc6c62bf0246a07f3291a26c562cc8659fbd (patch)
treec7039c1d1005b80e427761ba768d7697ae4a0b72 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
parent5d4121c04b3577e37e389b3553d442f44bb346d7 (diff)
parentfea7a08acb13524b47711625eebea40a0ede69a0 (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-e372dc6c62bf0246a07f3291a26c562cc8659fbd.tar.xz
Merge 3.6-rc3 into tty-next
This picks up all of the different fixes in Linus's tree that we also need here. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index 3823669..7f2739e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1522,8 +1522,16 @@ static struct perf_guest_switch_msr *intel_guest_get_msrs(int *nr)
arr[0].msr = MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL;
arr[0].host = x86_pmu.intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_guest_mask;
arr[0].guest = x86_pmu.intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_host_mask;
+ /*
+ * If PMU counter has PEBS enabled it is not enough to disable counter
+ * on a guest entry since PEBS memory write can overshoot guest entry
+ * and corrupt guest memory. Disabling PEBS solves the problem.
+ */
+ arr[1].msr = MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE;
+ arr[1].host = cpuc->pebs_enabled;
+ arr[1].guest = 0;
- *nr = 1;
+ *nr = 2;
return arr;
}