linux-kernel - [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86: Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS

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Date:	Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:18:21 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eranian@...gle.com, hpa@...or.com,
	mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, borislav.petkov@....com
Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86:
  Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS

Commit-ID:  e3e45c01ae690e65f2650e5288b9af802e95a136
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e3e45c01ae690e65f2650e5288b9af802e95a136
Author:     Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:34:34 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:48:19 +0200

perf/x86: Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS

The following patch makes the microcode update code path
actually invoke the perf_check_microcode() function and
thus potentially renabling SNB PEBS.

By default, CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE is
forced to Y in arch/x86/Kconfig. There is no
way to disable this. That means that the code
path used in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
did not include the call to perf_check_microcode().

Thus, even though the microcode was updated to a
version that fixes the SNB PEBS problem, perf_event
would still return EOPNOTSUPP when enabling precise
sampling.

This patch simply adds a call to perf_check_microcode()
in the call path used when OLD_INTERFACE=y.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
Cc: peterz@...radead.org
Cc: andi@...stfloor.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824133434.GA8014@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
index 4873e62..9e5bcf1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	if (do_microcode_update(buf, len) == 0)
 		ret = (ssize_t)len;
 
+	if (ret > 0)
+		perf_check_microcode();
+
 	mutex_unlock(&microcode_mutex);
 	put_online_cpus();
 
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