From: Jiri Olsa Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:13:13 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perf/x86/intel: Disable check_msr for real HW X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d0e1a507bdc7;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git perf/x86/intel: Disable check_msr for real HW Tom Vaden reported false failure of the check_msr() function, because some servers can do POST tracing and enable LBR tracing during bootup. Kan confirmed that check_msr patch was to fix a bug report in guest, so it's ok to disable it for real HW. Reported-by: Tom Vaden Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Tom Vaden Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Liang Kan Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190616141313.GD2500@krava [ Readability edits. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c index 5e6ae481dee7..bda450ff51ee 100644 --- a/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/events/intel/core.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "../perf_event.h" @@ -4050,6 +4051,13 @@ static bool check_msr(unsigned long msr, u64 mask) { u64 val_old, val_new, val_tmp; + /* + * Disable the check for real HW, so we don't + * mess with potentionaly enabled registers: + */ + if (hypervisor_is_type(X86_HYPER_NATIVE)) + return true; + /* * Read the current value, change it and read it back to see if it * matches, this is needed to detect certain hardware emulators