perf, x86: Disable PEBS on SandyBridge chips

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index 2be5ebe..8d601b1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1545,6 +1545,13 @@ static void intel_clovertown_quirks(void)
        x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = NULL;
 }
 
+static void intel_sandybridge_quirks(void)
+{
+       printk(KERN_WARNING "PEBS disabled due to CPU errata.\n");
+       x86_pmu.pebs = 0;
+       x86_pmu.pebs_constraints = NULL;
+}
+
 __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 {
        union cpuid10_edx edx;
@@ -1694,6 +1701,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
                break;
 
        case 42: /* SandyBridge */
+               x86_pmu.quirks = intel_sandybridge_quirks;
        case 45: /* SandyBridge, "Romely-EP" */
                memcpy(hw_cache_event_ids, snb_hw_cache_event_ids,
                       sizeof(hw_cache_event_ids));