perf_counter, x86: Fix/improve apic fallback
Johannes Stezenbach reported that his Pentium-M based
laptop does not have the local APIC enabled by default,
and hence perfcounters do not get initialized.
Add a fallback for this case: allow non-sampled counters
and return with an error on sampled counters. This allows
'perf stat' to work out of box - and allows 'perf top'
and 'perf record' to fall back on a hrtimer based sampling
method.
( Passing 'lapic' on the boot line will allow hardware
sampling to occur - but if the APIC is disabled
permanently by the hardware then this fallback still
allows more systems to use perfcounters. )
Also decouple perfcounter support from X86_LOCAL_APIC.
-v2: fix typo breaking counters on all other systems ...
Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 738bdc6..13ffa5d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
select HAVE_IDE
select HAVE_OPROFILE
+ select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS if (!M386 && !M486)
select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
select HAVE_KPROBES
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
@@ -742,7 +743,6 @@
config X86_LOCAL_APIC
def_bool y
depends on X86_64 || SMP || X86_32_NON_STANDARD || X86_UP_APIC
- select HAVE_PERF_COUNTERS if (!M386 && !M486)
config X86_IO_APIC
def_bool y