linux-stable/arch
Ingo Molnar 44530d588e Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86"
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>
2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
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alpha tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
arc ARC Fix for 4.7-rc6 2016-06-30 09:53:43 -07:00
arm KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.7-rc6: 2016-06-30 17:11:20 +02:00
arm64 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-06-24 19:08:33 -07:00
avr32 tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
frv tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
ia64 fix up initial thread stack pointer vs thread_info confusion 2016-06-24 17:07:33 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m68k tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
metag tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
microblaze tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
mips MIPS: Fix possible corruption of cache mode by mprotect. 2016-07-02 01:51:39 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-06-24 19:08:33 -07:00
nios2 nios2: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
openrisc tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
parisc parisc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #5 2016-07-02 17:47:54 -07:00
s390 s390: fix test_fp_ctl inline assembly contraints 2016-06-28 09:24:28 +02:00
score score: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
sh sh: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
sparc sparc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-06-24 19:08:33 -07:00
um tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
x86 Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86" 2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
xtensa tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Clarify naming of thread info/stack allocators 2016-06-24 15:09:37 -07:00