WSL2-Linux-Kernel/kernel
Ingo Molnar 44530d588e Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86"
This reverts commit 2c95afc1e8.

Stephane reported the following regression:

 > Since Andi added:
 >
 > commit 2c95afc1e8
 > Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
 > Date:   Thu Jun 9 06:14:38 2016 -0700
 >
 >    perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86
 >
 > $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls
 >   <not counted> ....
 >
 > fails systematically because the ref-cycles is now used by the
 > watchdog and given this is a system-wide pinned event, it monopolizes
 > the fixed counter 2 which is the only counter able to measure this event.

Since the next merge window is near, fix the regression for now
by reverting the commit.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
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bpf Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes before merging new changes 2016-07-07 08:58:23 +02:00
configs
debug
events Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes before merging new changes 2016-07-07 08:58:23 +02:00
gcov
irq irqchip updates for 4.7-rc1: 2016-06-03 15:05:51 +02:00
livepatch
locking locking: avoid passing around 'thread_info' in mutex debugging code 2016-06-23 12:11:17 -07:00
power oom, suspend: fix oom_reaper vs. oom_killer_disable race 2016-06-24 17:23:52 -07:00
printk printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
rcu debugobjects: insulate non-fixup logic related to static obj from fixup callbacks 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
sched sched/core: Allow kthreads to fall back to online && !active cpus 2016-06-24 08:26:53 +02:00
time timer: Export destroy_hrtimer_on_stack() 2016-05-31 11:44:08 -07:00
trace Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-06-29 11:50:42 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
Makefile ELF/MIPS build fix 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
acct.c
async.c
audit.c Merge branch 'stable-4.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-06-29 15:18:47 -07:00
audit.h audit: move audit_get_tty to reduce scope and kabi changes 2016-06-28 15:48:48 -04:00
audit_fsnotify.c
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c
auditfilter.c
auditsc.c Merge branch 'stable-4.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit 2016-06-29 15:18:47 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup.c cgroup: Disable IRQs while holding css_set_lock 2016-06-23 17:23:12 -04:00
cgroup_freezer.c
cgroup_pids.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c
cpu.c
cpu_pm.c
cpuset.c cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
crash_dump.c
cred.c
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c wait: allow sys_waitid() to accept __WNOTHREAD/__WCLONE/__WALL 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Fix build break in fork.c when THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE 2016-06-25 06:01:28 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c futex: Calculate the futex key based on a tail page for file-based futexes 2016-06-08 19:23:54 +02:00
futex_compat.c
groups.c
hung_task.c
irq_work.c
jump_label.c locking/static_key: Fix concurrent static_key_slow_inc() 2016-06-24 08:23:16 +02:00
kallsyms.c
kcmp.c
kcov.c kernel/kcov: unproxify debugfs file's fops 2016-06-15 04:56:35 -07:00
kexec.c s390/kexec: consolidate crash_map/unmap_reserved_pages() and arch_kexec_protect(unprotect)_crashkres() 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kexec_core.c s390/kexec: consolidate crash_map/unmap_reserved_pages() and arch_kexec_protect(unprotect)_crashkres() 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kexec_file.c kexec: introduce a protection mechanism for the crashkernel reserved memory 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
kexec_internal.h
kmod.c
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c
latencytop.c
membarrier.c
memremap.c
module-internal.h
module.c
module_signing.c
notifier.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c kernel/padata.c: hide unused functions 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
panic.c printk/nmi: flush NMI messages on the system panic 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
params.c
pid.c remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses 2016-05-27 15:26:11 -07:00
pid_namespace.c
profile.c
ptrace.c
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c kernel/relay.c: fix potential memory leak 2016-06-09 14:23:11 -07:00
resource.c
seccomp.c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-05-19 10:02:26 -07:00
signal.c kernel/signal.c: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> ...) to pr_<level>(...) 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
smp.c
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys.c prctl: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE wait for mmap_sem killable 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
sys_ni.c
sysctl.c 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
sysctl_binary.c kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use generic UUID library 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
task_work.c
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
user_namespace.c
utsname.c
utsname_sysctl.c
watchdog.c Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86" 2016-07-10 20:58:36 +02:00
workqueue.c debugobjects: insulate non-fixup logic related to static obj from fixup callbacks 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h