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Kan Liang 6089327f54 perf/x86: Add sysfs entry to freeze counters on SMI
Currently, the SMIs are visible to all performance counters, because
many users want to measure everything including SMIs. But in some
cases, the SMI cycles should not be counted - for example, to calculate
the cost of an SMI itself. So a knob is needed.

When setting FREEZE_WHILE_SMM bit in IA32_DEBUGCTL, all performance
counters will be effected. There is no way to do per-counter freeze
on SMI. So it should not use the per-event interface (e.g. ioctl or
event attribute) to set FREEZE_WHILE_SMM bit.

Adds sysfs entry /sys/device/cpu/freeze_on_smi to set FREEZE_WHILE_SMM
bit in IA32_DEBUGCTL. When set, freezes perfmon and trace messages
while in SMM.

Value has to be 0 or 1. It will be applied to all processors.

Also serialize the entire setting so we don't get multiple concurrent
threads trying to update to different values.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <Kan.liang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494600673-244667-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-23 09:50:04 +02:00
Documentation ACPI updates for v4.12-rc3 2017-05-22 19:26:33 -07:00
arch perf/x86: Add sysfs entry to freeze counters on SMI 2017-05-23 09:50:04 +02:00
block Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
certs scripts/spelling.txt: add "intialise(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
crypto crypto: skcipher - Add missing API setkey checks 2017-05-18 13:04:05 +08:00
drivers More, and hopefully final, fixes after refactor for EFI pstore backend. 2017-05-22 19:31:07 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-05-20 16:12:30 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-22 12:42:02 -07:00
init Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
ipc mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
kernel Power management updates for v4.12-rc3 2017-05-22 19:24:32 -07:00
lib dmaengine updates for 4.12-rc1 2017-05-09 15:40:28 -07:00
mm mm: vmscan: scan until it finds eligible pages 2017-05-12 15:57:16 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-05-22 12:42:02 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: run cleanup routines when receiving SIGTERM 2017-05-11 21:43:30 -04:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.12-rc: 2017-05-19 15:03:24 -07:00
security Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-09 09:12:53 -07:00
sound drm/i915: Fix runtime PM for LPE audio 2017-05-15 14:44:11 +03:00
tools Merge branches 'acpi-button' and 'acpi-tools' 2017-05-22 20:29:06 +02:00
usr initramfs: provide a way to ignore image provided by bootloader 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Hold slots_lock when unregistering kvm io bus devices 2017-05-18 11:18:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 4.12-rc2 2017-05-20 09:02:27 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.12-rc2 2017-05-21 19:30:23 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.