Peter Zijlstra c93dc84cbe perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS ...

Recent Intel microcode resolved the SNB-PEBS issues, so conditionally
enable PEBS on SNB hardware depending on the microcode revision.

Thanks to Stephane for figuring out the various microcode revisions.

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v3672ziwh9damwqwh1uz3krm@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

2012-07-05 21:55:57 +02:00

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perf/x86: Add a microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS

2012-07-05 21:55:57 +02:00