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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-03-03 21:27:42 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-03-03 21:27:42 -0800 |
| commit | 0a0e9ae1bd788bc19adc4d4ae08c98b233697402 (patch) | |
| tree | 13825eeb5bbeae27d66e95f12168eff4b60701ab /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | |
| parent | 01a16b21d6adf992aa863186c3c4e561a57c1714 (diff) | |
| parent | b65a0e0c84cf489bfa00d6aa6c48abc5a237100f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c index f7a0993..ff751a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_p4.c @@ -770,9 +770,14 @@ static inline int p4_pmu_clear_cccr_ovf(struct hw_perf_event *hwc) return 1; } - /* it might be unflagged overflow */ - rdmsrl(hwc->event_base + hwc->idx, v); - if (!(v & ARCH_P4_CNTRVAL_MASK)) + /* + * In some circumstances the overflow might issue an NMI but did + * not set P4_CCCR_OVF bit. Because a counter holds a negative value + * we simply check for high bit being set, if it's cleared it means + * the counter has reached zero value and continued counting before + * real NMI signal was received: + */ + if (!(v & ARCH_P4_UNFLAGGED_BIT)) return 1; return 0; |
