powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to perf_event_do_pending call

Anton Blanchard found that large POWER systems would occasionally
crash in the exception exit path when profiling with perf_events.
The symptom was that an interrupt would occur late in the exit path
when the MSR[RI] (recoverable interrupt) bit was clear.  Interrupts
should be hard-disabled at this point but they were enabled.  Because
the interrupt was not recoverable the system panicked.

The reason is that the exception exit path was calling
perf_event_do_pending after hard-disabling interrupts, and
perf_event_do_pending will re-enable interrupts.

The simplest and cleanest fix for this is to use the same mechanism
that 32-bit powerpc does, namely to cause a self-IPI by setting the
decrementer to 1.  This means we can remove the tests in the exception
exit path and raw_local_irq_restore.

This also makes sure that the call to perf_event_do_pending from
timer_interrupt() happens within irq_enter/irq_exit.  (Note that
calling perf_event_do_pending from timer_interrupt does not mean that
there is a possible 1/HZ latency; setting the decrementer to 1 ensures
that the timer interrupt will happen immediately, i.e. within one
timebase tick, which is a few nanoseconds or 10s of nanoseconds.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 07109d843787..42e9d908914a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -556,15 +556,6 @@ ALT_FW_FTR_SECTION_END_IFCLR(FW_FEATURE_ISERIES)
 2:
 	TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ(r5);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
-	/* check paca->perf_event_pending if we're enabling ints */
-	lbz	r3,PACAPERFPEND(r13)
-	and.	r3,r3,r5
-	beq	27f
-	bl	.perf_event_do_pending
-27:
-#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */
-
 	/* extract EE bit and use it to restore paca->hard_enabled */
 	ld	r3,_MSR(r1)
 	rldicl	r4,r3,49,63		/* r0 = (r3 >> 15) & 1 */