From: "Yan, Zheng" <[email protected]> Initializing uncore PMU on virtualized CPU may hang the kernel. This is because kvm does not emulate the entire hardware. Thers are lots of uncore related MSRs, making kvm enumerate them all is a non-trival task. So just disable uncore on virtualized CPU.
Signed-off-by: Yan, Zheng <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c index 0a55710..2f005ba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_uncore.c @@ -2898,6 +2898,9 @@ static int __init intel_uncore_init(void) if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL) return -ENODEV; + if (cpu_has_hypervisor) + return -ENODEV; + ret = uncore_pci_init(); if (ret) goto fail; -- 1.7.11.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
