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>
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