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perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 03:38:42 +0000 (14:38 +1100)
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:58:41 +0000 (11:58 -0700)
commit09d55df69df7b1b5500fdca8f40c7955342213be
tree61f82df2b222b81da15b7c56ae3b3d92f543b326
parent7d88d3b036943c87750745bded1d39fb76691b9c
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>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c