perf/x86/intel: Honour the CPUID for number of fixed counters in hypervisors
perf doesn't seem to honour the number of fixed counters specified by CPUID leaf 0xa. It always assumes that Intel CPUs have at least 3 fixed counters. So if some of the fixed counters are masked out by the hypervisor, it still tries to check/set them. This patch makes perf behave nicer when the kernel is running under a hypervisor that doesn't expose all the counters. This patch contains some ideas from Matt Wilson. Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alexander Kozyrev <alexander.kozyrev@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Artyom Kuanbekov <artyom.kuanbekov@intel.com> Cc: David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477037939-15605-1-git-send-email-imrep.amz@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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