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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c index ab6f6beadb57..97e0ae414940 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -1269,6 +1269,28 @@ unsigned long perf_instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs) return ip; } +static bool pmc_overflow(unsigned long val) +{ + if ((int)val < 0) + return true; + + /* + * Events on POWER7 can roll back if a speculative event doesn't + * eventually complete. Unfortunately in some rare cases they will + * raise a performance monitor exception. We need to catch this to + * ensure we reset the PMC. In all cases the PMC will be 256 or less + * cycles from overflow. + * + * We only do this if the first pass fails to find any overflowing + * PMCs because a user might set a period of less than 256 and we + * don't want to mistakenly reset them. + */ + if (__is_processor(PV_POWER7) && ((0x80000000 - val) <= 256)) + return true; + + return false; +} + /* * Performance monitor interrupt stuff */ @@ -1316,7 +1338,7 @@ static void perf_event_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs) if (is_limited_pmc(i + 1)) continue; val = read_pmc(i + 1); - if ((int)val < 0) + if (pmc_overflow(val)) write_pmc(i + 1, 0); } } |
