linux/arch
Andi Kleen 2c95afc1e8 perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86
The NMI watchdog uses either the fixed cycles or a generic cycles
counter. This causes a lot of conflicts with users of the PMU who want
to run a full group including the cycles fixed counter, for example
the --topdown support recently added to perf stat. The code needs to
fall back to not use groups, which can cause measurement inaccuracy
due to multiplexing errors.

This patch switches the NMI watchdog to use reference cycles
on Intel systems.  This is actually more accurate than cycles,
because cycles can tick faster than the measured CPU Frequency
due to Turbo mode.

The ref cycles always tick at their frequency, or slower when
the system is idling. That means the NMI watchdog can never
expire too early, unlike with cycles.

The reference cycles tick roughly at the frequency of the TSC,
so the same period computation can be used.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465478079-19993-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14 11:16:59 +02:00
..
alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Revert "ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff" 2016-06-02 10:59:23 +05:30
arm This finally removes the CLK_IS_ROOT flag by picking up the last few 2016-06-07 16:24:44 -07:00
arm64 arm64: mm: always take dirty state from new pte in ptep_set_access_flags 2016-06-08 10:23:44 +01:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -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 MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -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 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-05-28 16:41:39 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
openrisc asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
parisc parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header 2016-06-05 08:49:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #2 2016-06-10 12:23:49 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2016-05-31 09:43:24 -07:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2016-05-31 22:20:56 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-05-27 18:54:59 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
x86 perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86 2016-06-14 11:16:59 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00