perf/x86/mbm: Add support for MBM counter overflow handling
This patch adds a per package timer which periodically updates the memory bandwidth counters for the events that are currently active. Current patch has a periodic timer every 1s since the SDM guarantees that the counter will not overflow in 1s but this time can be definitely improved by calibrating on the system. The overflow is really a function of the max memory b/w that the socket can support, max counter value and scaling factor. Signed-off-by: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com Cc: h.peter.anvin@intel.com Cc: ravi.v.shankar@intel.com Cc: vikas.shivappa@intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/013b756c5006b1c4ca411f3ecf43ed52f19fbf87.1457723885.git.tony.luck@intel.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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