perf/x86: Add an MSR PMU driver
This patch adds an MSR PMU to support free running MSR counters. Such
as time and freq related counters includes TSC, IA32_APERF, IA32_MPERF
and IA32_PPERF, but also SMI_COUNT.
The events are exposed in sysfs for use by perf stat and other tools.
The files are under /sys/devices/msr/events/
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
[ s/freq/msr/, added SMI_COUNT, fixed bugs. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com
Cc: eranian@google.com
Cc: jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com
Cc: namhyung@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437407346-31186-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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