Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:55:19 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf/x86: Disable uncore on virtualized CPU. | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> wrote: > From: "Yan, Zheng" <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> > > Initializing uncore PMU on virtualized CPU may hang the kernel. > This is because kvm does not emulate the entire hardware. Thers > are lots of uncore related MSRs, making kvm enumerate them all > is a non-trival task. So just disable uncore on virtualized CPU. > > Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <zheng.z.yan@intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c > index 0a55710..2f005ba 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c > @@ -2898,6 +2898,9 @@ static int __init intel_uncore_init(void) > if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) > return -ENODEV; > > + if (cpu_has_hypervisor) > + return -ENODEV; > + > ret = uncore_pci_init(); > if (ret) > goto fail;
Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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