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Commit 7d44ec19 authored by Cyrill Gorcunov's avatar Cyrill Gorcunov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf, x86: P4 PMU: Fix spurious NMI messages



Several people have reported spurious unknown NMI
messages on some P4 CPUs.

This patch fixes it by checking for an overflow (negative
counter values) directly, instead of relying on the
P4_CCCR_OVF bit.

Reported-by: default avatarGeorge Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: default avatarMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: default avatarDon Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinfuTfCck_FfaOHrDqQZZehtRzkBum4SpFoO=KJ@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 85e2efbb
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