linux-stable/arch/x86
Stephane Eranian 38331f62c2 perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling
This patch adds correct AMD NorthBridge event scheduling.

NB events are events measuring L3 cache, Hypertransport traffic. They are
identified by an event code >= 0xe0. They measure events on the
Northbride which is shared by all cores on a package. NB events are
counted on a shared set of counters. When a NB event is programmed in a
counter, the data actually comes from a shared counter. Thus, access to
those counters needs to be synchronized.

We implement the synchronization such that no two cores can be measuring
NB events using the same counters. Thus, we maintain a per-NB allocation
table. The available slot is propagated using the event_constraint
structure.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4b703957.0702d00a.6bf2.7b7d@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26 10:56:53 +01:00
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boot x86: add support for LZO-compressed kernels 2010-01-11 09:34:05 -08:00
configs
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-12-01 15:16:22 +08:00
ia32 Unify sys_mmap* 2009-12-11 06:44:29 -05:00
include/asm ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions 2010-02-04 09:36:19 +01:00
kernel perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling 2010-02-26 10:56:53 +01:00
kvm KVM: x86: Fix leak of free lapic date in kvm_arch_vcpu_init() 2010-01-25 12:26:40 -02:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'iommu/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent 2009-12-28 09:23:13 +01:00
math-emu
mm hw-breakpoints, perf: Fix broken mmiotrace due to dr6 by reference change 2010-01-17 08:01:44 +01:00
oprofile perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional 2009-12-17 09:56:19 +01:00
pci Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip 2010-01-08 13:55:52 -08:00
power hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'iommu/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent 2009-12-28 09:23:13 +01:00
vdso sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support 2009-11-12 02:05:04 -08:00
video
xen x86: xen: 64-bit kernel RPL should be 0 2010-01-13 11:23:54 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly 2010-01-11 09:45:37 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu Revert "x86: Side-step lguest problem by only building cmpxchg8b_emu for pre-Pentium" 2010-01-05 16:01:35 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-11 20:47:30 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes 2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00