Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: perf_counter AMD supports performancemonitoring for K7

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jun 10 2009 - 20:13:59 EST



* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> index 240ca56..5d56742 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
> @@ -1436,6 +1436,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_init(void)
>
> static int amd_pmu_init(void)
> {
> + /* performance-monitoring supported from K7 */
> + if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 7)
> + return -ENODEV;
> +
> x86_pmu = amd_pmu;
>
> switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) {

A commit under Linux consists of three parts:

1) the title
2) the changlog
3) the body

This sloppy patch of yours manages to get _all_ three wrong:

- the title is wrong (it is incorrect)
- the changelog is wrong (it is missing)
- the body is wrong (it is broken - K7 != family 7)

What the heck is going on here?

Ingo
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