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    perf/x86: Honor the architectural performance monitoring version · 71e33198
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    Architectural performance monitoring, version 1, doesn't support fixed counters.
    
    Currently, even if a hypervisor advertises support for architectural
    performance monitoring version 1, perf may still try to use the fixed
    counters, as the constraints are set up based on the CPU model.
    
    This patch ensures that perf honors the architectural performance monitoring
    version returned by CPUID, and it only uses the fixed counters for version 2
    and above.
    
    (Some of the ideas in this patch came from Peter Zijlstra.)
    Signed-off-by: default avatarImre Palik <imrep@amazon.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433767609-1039-1-git-send-email-imrep.amz@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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