Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6
  ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code
  oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency
  oprofile: Fix locking dependency in sync_start()
  oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors
  oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index b961af86bfea..b9338b8cf420 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static unsigned int reserve_eilvt_offset(int offset, unsigned int new)
 
 /*
  * If mask=1, the LVT entry does not generate interrupts while mask=0
- * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs.
+ * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs. Must be called with
+ * preemption disabled.
  */
 
 int setup_APIC_eilvt(u8 offset, u8 vector, u8 msg_type, u8 mask)
diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
index 9fd8a567fe1e..9cbb710dc94b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
@@ -609,16 +609,21 @@ static int setup_ibs_ctl(int ibs_eilvt_off)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This runs only on the current cpu. We try to find an LVT offset and
+ * setup the local APIC. For this we must disable preemption. On
+ * success we initialize all nodes with this offset. This updates then
+ * the offset in the IBS_CTL per-node msr. The per-core APIC setup of
+ * the IBS interrupt vector is called from op_amd_setup_ctrs()/op_-
+ * amd_cpu_shutdown() using the new offset.
+ */
 static int force_ibs_eilvt_setup(void)
 {
 	int offset;
 	int ret;
 
-	/*
-	 * find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0,
-	 * pin search to this cpu
-	 */
 	preempt_disable();
+	/* find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0 */
 	for (offset = 1; offset < APIC_EILVT_NR_MAX; offset++) {
 		if (get_eilvt(offset))
 			break;