[PATCH 0/3] perf/x86/pebs: various important fixes for PEBS

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 14:51:00 EST



This short patch series fixes several issues related to PEBS on Haswell
and later processors.

- The HT corruption bug (HSD29) is fixed on Broadwell, there is no need
to mark events 0xd0-0xd3 as exclusive. This was fixed for non-PEBS mode
but not for PEBS mode.

- On Haswell and later, there is a bug with the GLOBAL_OVF_STATUS bits
reporting counter overflows for PEBS events. SDM says it should not
but I ran into cases where bits 0-3 were set, causing double processing
of the samples and samples missing the EXACT tag. See changelog

Tested on Haswell, Broadwell, SkyLake

Patch relative to tip.git

Stephane Eranian (3):
perf/x86/intel: add definition for PT PMI bit
perf/x86/pebs: add workaround for broken OVFL status on HSW
perf/x86/pebs: add proper PEBS constraints for Broadwell

arch/x86/events/intel/core.c | 12 +++++++++++-
arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/perf_event.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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