linux/arch
Ingo Molnar 04da8a43da perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback
Johannes Stezenbach reported that his Pentium-M based
laptop does not have the local APIC enabled by default,
and hence perfcounters do not get initialized.

Add a fallback for this case: allow non-sampled counters
and return with an error on sampled counters. This allows
'perf stat' to work out of box - and allows 'perf top'
and 'perf record' to fall back on a hrtimer based sampling
method.

( Passing 'lapic' on the boot line will allow hardware
  sampling to occur - but if the APIC is disabled
  permanently by the hardware then this fallback still
  allows more systems to use perfcounters. )

Also decouple perfcounter support from X86_LOCAL_APIC.

-v2: fix typo breaking counters on all other systems ...

Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-12 14:12:49 +02:00
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alpha mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
arm USB: musb: fix the nop registration for OMAP3EVM 2009-08-07 16:05:13 -07:00
avr32 mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: fix wrong CTS inversion 2009-07-20 16:38:44 -07:00
cris mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
frv mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
h8300 sched: INIT_PREEMPT_COUNT 2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
ia64 KVM: ia64: fix build failures due to ia64/unsigned long mismatches 2009-08-05 15:04:16 +03:00
m32r mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68k mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
m68knommu Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats 2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze 2009-07-27 12:18:27 -07:00
mips MIPS: Wire up accept4 syscall. 2009-08-03 17:52:50 +01:00
mn10300 MN10300: includecheck fix: mn10300, pci.h 2009-08-10 08:54:27 -07:00
parisc parisc: Set correct bit in protection flags 2009-08-02 12:36:05 +02:00
powerpc Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-08-10 11:48:51 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2009-08-09 14:58:21 -07:00
sh mm: Remove duplicate definitions in MIPS and SH 2009-07-27 17:26:44 -07:00
sparc mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
um mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
x86 perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback 2009-08-12 14:12:49 +02:00
xtensa mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure 2009-06-18 13:03:57 -07:00