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authorRavi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-09-19 11:47:06 +0530
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-09-20 13:30:09 +1000
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powerpc/sysrq: Fix oops whem ppmu is not registered
Kernel crashes if power pmu is not registered and user tries to dump regs with 'echo p > /proc/sysrq-trigger'. Sample log: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008 Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000000d52f0 NIP [c0000000000d52f0] perf_event_print_debug+0x10/0x230 LR [c00000000058a938] sysrq_handle_showregs+0x38/0x50 Call Trace: printk+0x38/0x4c (unreliable) __handle_sysrq+0xe4/0x270 write_sysrq_trigger+0x64/0x80 proc_reg_write+0x80/0xd0 __vfs_write+0x40/0x200 vfs_write+0xc8/0x240 SyS_write+0x60/0x110 system_call+0x58/0x6c Fixes: 5f6d0380c640 ("powerpc/perf: Define perf_event_print_debug() to print PMU register values") Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 2e3eb7431571..9e3da168d54c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -793,6 +793,11 @@ void perf_event_print_debug(void)
u32 pmcs[MAX_HWEVENTS];
int i;
+ if (!ppmu) {
+ pr_info("Performance monitor hardware not registered.\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
if (!ppmu->n_counter)
return;
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