perf, x86: P4 PMU: Fix spurious NMI messages
Several people have reported spurious unknown NMI
messages on some P4 CPUs.
This patch fixes it by checking for an overflow (negative
counter values) directly, instead of relying on the
P4_CCCR_OVF bit.
Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinfuTfCck_FfaOHrDqQZZehtRzkBum4SpFoO=KJ@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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