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authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2009-04-29 12:46:58 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-29 14:51:00 +0200
commitda1a776be1ac7f78bb30ececbec4c1383163b079 (patch)
tree5b7c38811d175ff53f769a537a80fe111fabfd25 /arch/x86
parente7fd5d4b3d240f42c30a9e3d20a4689c4d3a795a (diff)
perf_counter, x86: remove X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON flag for AMD cpus
X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON is an Intel hardware feature that does not work on AMD CPUs. The flag is now only used in Intel specific code (especially initialization). [ Impact: refactor code ] Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1241002046-8832-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c6
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index fd69c514ca2..7e4a459daa6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -420,10 +420,6 @@ static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (c->x86 >= 6)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK);
- /* Enable Performance counter for K7 and later */
- if (c->x86 > 6 && c->x86 <= 0x11)
- set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON);
-
if (!c->x86_model_id[0]) {
switch (c->x86) {
case 0xf:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index 0fcbaab83f9..7d0f81dcb52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -949,6 +949,9 @@ static struct pmc_x86_ops *pmc_intel_init(void)
unsigned int unused;
unsigned int ebx;
+ if (!cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON))
+ return NULL;
+
/*
* Check whether the Architectural PerfMon supports
* Branch Misses Retired Event or not.
@@ -987,9 +990,6 @@ static struct pmc_x86_ops *pmc_amd_init(void)
void __init init_hw_perf_counters(void)
{
- if (!cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON))
- return;
-
switch (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor) {
case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
pmc_ops = pmc_intel_init();