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[PATCH] i386: i386 add X86_FEATURE_PEBS and detection

Here is a patch (used by perfmon2) to detect the presence of the Precise Event
Based Sampling (PEBS) feature for i386.  The patch also adds the cpu_has_pebs
macro.

- adds X86_FEATURE_PEBS

- adds cpu_has_pebs to test for X86_FEATURE_PEBS

Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Stephane Eranian 18 years ago
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2 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 7 1
      arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c
  2. 2 0
      include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h

+ 7 - 1
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel.c

@@ -195,8 +195,14 @@ static void __cpuinit init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	if ((c->x86 == 0xf && c->x86_model >= 0x03) ||
 		(c->x86 == 0x6 && c->x86_model >= 0x0e))
 		set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC, c->x86_capability);
-}
 
+	if (cpu_has_ds) {
+		unsigned int l1;
+		rdmsr(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, l1, l2);
+		if (!(l1 & (1<<12)))
+			set_bit(X86_FEATURE_PEBS, c->x86_capability);
+	}
+}
 
 static unsigned int __cpuinit intel_size_cache(struct cpuinfo_x86 * c, unsigned int size)
 {

+ 2 - 0
include/asm-i386/cpufeature.h

@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 #define X86_FEATURE_UP		(3*32+ 9) /* smp kernel running on up */
 #define X86_FEATURE_FXSAVE_LEAK (3*32+10) /* FXSAVE leaks FOP/FIP/FOP */
 #define X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON (3*32+11) /* Intel Architectural PerfMon */
+#define X86_FEATURE_PEBS	(3*32+12)  /* Precise-Event Based Sampling */
 
 /* Intel-defined CPU features, CPUID level 0x00000001 (ecx), word 4 */
 #define X86_FEATURE_XMM3	(4*32+ 0) /* Streaming SIMD Extensions-3 */
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@
 #define cpu_has_pmm		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PMM)
 #define cpu_has_pmm_enabled	boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PMM_EN)
 #define cpu_has_ds		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_DS)
+#define cpu_has_pebs 		boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PEBS)
 
 #endif /* __ASM_I386_CPUFEATURE_H */