In a kvm virt guests, the perf counters are not emulated.  Instead they
return zero on a rdmsrl. The perf nmi handler uses the fact that crossing
a zero means the counter overflowed (for those counters that do not have
specific interrupt bits). Therefore on kvm guests, perf will swallow all
NMIs thinking the counters overflowed.

This causes problems for subsystems like kgdb which needs NMIs to do its
magic. This problem was discovered by running kgdb tests.

The solution is to write garbage into a perf counter during the
initialization and hopefully reading back the same number.  On kvm
guests, the value will be read back as zero and we disable perf as
a result.

Reported-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Patch-inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290462923-30734-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Jasper suggested we use the zeroing capability of the allocators
instead of calling memset ourselves. Add node affinity while we're at
it.

Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (50 commits)
  perf python scripting: Add futex-contention script
  perf python scripting: Fixup cut'n'paste error in sctop script
  perf scripting: Shut up 'perf record' final status
  perf record: Remove newline character from perror() argument
  perf python scripting: Support fedora 11 (audit 1.7.17)
  perf python scripting: Improve the syscalls-by-pid script
  perf python scripting: print the syscall name on sctop
  perf python scripting: Improve the syscalls-counts script
  perf python scripting: Improve the failed-syscalls-by-pid script
  kprobes: Remove redundant text_mutex lock in optimize
  x86/oprofile: Fix uninitialized variable use in debug printk
  tracing: Fix 'faild' -> 'failed' typo
  perf probe: Fix format specified for Dwarf_Off parameter
  perf trace: Fix detection of script extension
  perf trace: Use $PERF_EXEC_PATH in canned report scripts
  perf tools: Document event modifiers
  perf tools: Remove direct slang.h include
  perf_events: Fix for transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf_events: Revert: Fix transaction recovery in group_sched_in()
  perf, x86: Use NUMA aware allocations for PEBS/BTS/DS allocations
  ...

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (53 commits)
  ACPI: install ACPI table handler before any dynamic tables being loaded
  ACPI / PM: Blacklist another machine that needs acpi_sleep=nonvs
  ACPI: Page based coalescing of I/O remappings optimization
  ACPI: Convert simple locking to RCU based locking
  ACPI: Pre-map 'system event' related register blocks
  ACPI: Add interfaces for ioremapping/iounmapping ACPI registers
  ACPI: Maintain a list of ACPI memory mapped I/O remappings
  ACPI: Fix ioremap size for MMIO reads and writes
  ACPI / Battery: Return -ENODEV for unknown values in get_property()
  ACPI / PM: Fix reference counting of power resources
  Subject: [PATCH] ACPICA: Fix Scope() op in module level code
  ACPI battery: support percentage battery remaining capacity
  ACPI: Make Embedded Controller command timeout delay configurable
  ACPI dock: move some functions to .init.text
  ACPI: thermal: remove unused limit code
  ACPI: static sleep_states[] and acpi_gts_bfs_check
  ACPI: remove dead code
  ACPI: delete dedicated MAINTAINERS entries for ACPI EC and BATTERY drivers
  ACPI: Only processor needs CPU_IDLE
  ACPICA: Update version to 20101013
  ...

Use the new {max,min}3 macros to save some cycles and bytes on the stack.
This patch substitutes trivial nested macros with their counterpart.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Now that the KM_type stuff is history, clean up the compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ]: x86, cpufreq: Mark longrun_get_policy with __cpuinit.
  [CPUFREQ] add sampling_down_factor tunable to improve ondemand performance
  [CPUFREQ] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq: Fix unsigned return type
  [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq: Adjust confusing if indentation

* 'softirq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softirqs: Make wakeup_softirqd static

* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, asm: Restore parentheses around one pushl_cfi argument
  x86, asm: Fix ancient-GAS workaround
  x86, asm: Fix CFI macro invocations to deal with shortcomings in gas

* 'x86-numa-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, numa: Assign CPUs to nodes in round-robin manner on fake NUMA

* 'x86-quirks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT

* 'x86-setup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, setup: Use string copy operation to optimze copy in kernel compression

* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, UV: Use allocated buffer in tlb_uv.c:tunables_read()

* 'x86-vm86-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, vm86: Fix preemption bug for int1 debug and int3 breakpoint handlers.

* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  vfs: make no_llseek the default
  vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
  llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
  libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
  mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
  lirc: make chardev nonseekable
  viotape: use noop_llseek
  raw: use explicit llseek file operations
  ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
  spufs: use llseek in all file operations
  arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
  lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  drm: use noop_llseek