Commit f285f92f authored by Robert Richter's avatar Robert Richter Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf/x86: Improve debug output in check_hw_exists()



It might be of interest which perfctr msr failed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
[ added hunk to avoid GCC warn ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340217996-2254-5-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent b1dc3c48
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@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static void release_pmc_hardware(void) {}

static bool check_hw_exists(void)
{
	u64 val, val_new = 0;
	u64 val, val_new = ~0;
	int i, reg, ret = 0;

	/*
@@ -211,8 +211,9 @@ static bool check_hw_exists(void)
	 * that don't trap on the MSR access and always return 0s.
	 */
	val = 0xabcdUL;
	ret = wrmsrl_safe(x86_pmu_event_addr(0), val);
	ret |= rdmsrl_safe(x86_pmu_event_addr(0), &val_new);
	reg = x86_pmu_event_addr(0);
	ret = wrmsrl_safe(reg, val);
	ret |= rdmsrl_safe(reg, &val_new);
	if (ret || val != val_new)
		goto msr_fail;

@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ bios_fail:

msr_fail:
	printk(KERN_CONT "Broken PMU hardware detected, using software events only.\n");
	printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to access perfctr msr (MSR %x is %Lx)\n", reg, val_new);

	return false;
}