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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2011-03-09 14:38:42 +1100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-03-21 12:45:51 -0700 |
| commit | 9008aa5b68fe409f419c4404de3fb36d43abbe39 (patch) | |
| tree | 702641142e523545b4448f6f415c5810a5af20e4 /arch | |
| parent | 585f09f8bfb60e2b093da4fc7d6078dd8e161bb4 (diff) | |
perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
commit 0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 upstream.
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.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c | 24 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h index bc8dd53f718a..6f6bd54e8b08 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h @@ -860,6 +860,7 @@ #define PV_970 0x0039 #define PV_POWER5 0x003A #define PV_POWER5p 0x003B +#define PV_POWER7 0x003F #define PV_970FX 0x003C #define PV_630 0x0040 #define PV_630p 0x0041 diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c index a3c0a32c4628..8291a3cf7056 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -1220,6 +1220,28 @@ 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 */ @@ -1267,7 +1289,7 @@ 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); } } |