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Ingo Molnar committed 44530d588e1
Revert "perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86" This reverts commit 2c95afc1e83d93fac3be6923465e1753c2c53b0a. Stephane reported the following regression: > Since Andi added: > > commit 2c95afc1e83d93fac3be6923465e1753c2c53b0a > Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > Date: Thu Jun 9 06:14:38 2016 -0700 > > perf/x86/intel, watchdog: Switch NMI watchdog to ref cycles on x86 > > $ perf stat -e ref-cycles ls > <not counted> .... > > fails systematically because the ref-cycles is now used by the > watchdog and given this is a system-wide pinned event, it monopolizes > the fixed counter 2 which is the only counter able to measure this event. Since the next merge window is near, fix the regression for now by reverting the commit. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>