This patch fixes a bug introduced by commit 24223657. The rdmsrl_safe() function returns 0 on success. The current code was failing to detect the RAPL PMU on real hardware (missing /sys/devices/power) because the return value of rdmsrl_safe() was misinterpreted.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c index 7c87424..619f769 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_rapl.c @@ -543,7 +543,8 @@ static int rapl_cpu_prepare(int cpu) if (phys_id < 0) return -1; - if (!rdmsrl_safe(MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT, &msr_rapl_power_unit_bits)) + /* protect rdmsrl() to handle virtualization */ + if (rdmsrl_safe(MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT, &msr_rapl_power_unit_bits)) return -1; pmu = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pmu), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/