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Commit 3daa96d6 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra
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perf/intel: Remove Perfmon-v4 counter_freezing support



Perfmon-v4 counter freezing is fundamentally broken; remove this default
disabled code to make sure nobody uses it.

The feature is called Freeze-on-PMI in the SDM, and if it would do that,
there wouldn't actually be a problem, *however* it does something subtly
different. It globally disables the whole PMU when it raises the PMI,
not when the PMI hits.

This means there's a window between the PMI getting raised and the PMI
actually getting served where we loose events and this violates the
perf counter independence. That is, a counting event should not result
in a different event count when there is a sampling event co-scheduled.

This is known to break existing software (RR).

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
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