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Suravee Suthikulpanit 63e9abe35d iommu/amd: Remove performance counter pre-initialization test
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In early AMD desktop/mobile platforms (during 2013), when the IOMMU
Performance Counter (PMC) support was first introduced in
commit 30861ddc9c ("perf/x86/amd: Add IOMMU Performance Counter
resource management"), there was a HW bug where the counters could not
be accessed. The result was reading of the counter always return zero.

At the time, the suggested workaround was to add a test logic prior
to initializing the PMC feature to check if the counters can be programmed
and read back the same value. This has been working fine until the more
recent desktop/mobile platforms start enabling power gating for the PMC,
which prevents access to the counters. This results in the PMC support
being disabled unnecesarily.

Unfortunatly, there is no documentation of since which generation
of hardware the original PMC HW bug was fixed. Although, it was fixed
soon after the first introduction of the PMC. Base on this, we assume
that the buggy platforms are less likely to be in used, and it should
be relatively safe to remove this legacy logic.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/alpine.LNX.3.20.13.2006030935570.3181@monopod.intra.ispras.ru/
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201753
Cc: Tj (Elloe Linux) <ml.linux@elloe.vision>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
Cc: David Coe <david.coe@live.co.uk>
Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Tested-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210409085848.3908-3-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-05-19 10:12:56 +02:00
arch powerpc/mm: Add cond_resched() while removing hpte mappings 2021-05-19 10:12:56 +02:00
block block: return -EBUSY when there are open partitions in blkdev_reread_part 2021-04-28 13:39:59 +02:00
certs certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion 2021-03-04 11:37:59 +01:00
crypto async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page 2021-05-14 09:49:59 +02:00
Documentation media: docs: Fix data organization of MEDIA_BUS_FMT_RGB101010_1X30 2021-05-14 09:50:23 +02:00
drivers iommu/amd: Remove performance counter pre-initialization test 2021-05-19 10:12:56 +02:00
fs cuse: prevent clone 2021-05-19 10:12:56 +02:00
include i2c: Add I2C_AQ_NO_REP_START adapter quirk 2021-05-19 10:12:54 +02:00
init seccomp: Fix CONFIG tests for Seccomp_filters 2021-05-14 09:50:24 +02:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async prototype 2021-05-14 09:50:46 +02:00
lib bug: Remove redundant condition check in report_bug 2021-05-14 09:50:32 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm/memory-failure: unnecessary amount of unmapping 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
net mac80211: clear the beacon's CRC after channel switch 2021-05-19 10:12:55 +02:00
samples kfifo: fix ternary sign extension bugs 2021-05-14 09:50:45 +02:00
scripts kasan: fix hwasan build for gcc 2021-04-28 13:40:02 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix memory leak on object td 2021-05-19 10:12:50 +02:00
sound ASoC: rsnd: call rsnd_ssi_master_clk_start() from rsnd_ssi_init() 2021-05-19 10:12:56 +02:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Fix L1D flushing tests for Power10 2021-05-19 10:12:54 +02:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: Cap halt polling at kvm->max_halt_poll_ns 2021-05-19 10:12:51 +02:00
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Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: move the staging subsystem to lists.linux.dev 2021-03-25 09:04:18 +01:00
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