perf_counter, x86: Check old-AMD performance monitoring support

AMD supports performance monitoring start from K7 (i.e. family 6),
so disable it for earlier AMD CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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>
LKML-Reference: <1244714289.6923.0.camel@ht.satnam>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index 275bc142cd5d..3c37c3930ca1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -1459,6 +1459,10 @@ static int intel_pmu_init(void)
 
 static int amd_pmu_init(void)
 {
+        /* Performance-monitoring supported from K7 and later: */
+        if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 6)
+                return -ENODEV;
+
         x86_pmu = amd_pmu;
 
         switch (boot_cpu_data.x86) {