[tip:perf/urgent] perf, x86: Fix incorrect branches event on AMD CPUs

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Commit-ID:  f287d332ce835f77a4f5077d2c0ef1e3f9ea42d2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/f287d332ce835f77a4f5077d2c0ef1e3f9ea42d2
Author:     Vince Weaver <vweaver1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:30:16 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:19:34 +0200

perf, x86: Fix incorrect branches event on AMD CPUs

While doing some performance counter validation tests on some
assembly language programs I noticed that the "branches:u"
count was very wrong on AMD machines.

It looks like the wrong event was selected.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1007011526010.23160@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c
index 611df11..c2897b7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_amd.c
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ static const u64 amd_perfmon_event_map[] =
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS]		= 0x00c0,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES]	= 0x0080,
   [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES]		= 0x0081,
-  [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS]	= 0x00c4,
-  [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES]		= 0x00c5,
+  [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS]	= 0x00c2,
+  [PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES]		= 0x00c3,
 };
 
 static u64 amd_pmu_event_map(int hw_event)
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