perf/x86: Fix microcode revision check for SNB-PEBS
The following patch makes the microcode update code path
actually invoke the perf_check_microcode() function and
thus potentially renabling SNB PEBS.
By default, CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE is
forced to Y in arch/x86/Kconfig. There is no
way to disable this. That means that the code
path used in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
did not include the call to perf_check_microcode().
Thus, even though the microcode was updated to a
version that fixes the SNB PEBS problem, perf_event
would still return EOPNOTSUPP when enabling precise
sampling.
This patch simply adds a call to perf_check_microcode()
in the call path used when OLD_INTERFACE=y.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120824133434.GA8014@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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