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powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
authorEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Mon, 23 May 2011 04:22:40 +0000 (04:22 +0000)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:54:50 +0000 (13:54 -0700)
commit4ede8259d84a843e2adc0ce69523015608a5f271
tree75b4d304aa819f51a259a684eca0a56494a0de76
parent9c9f2de51e46be3011a100b4b401a6f17d220776
powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

commit ad5d5292f16c6c1d7d3e257c4c7407594286b97e upstream.

Commit 0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 fixes a situation on POWER7
where events can roll back if a specualtive event doesn't actually complete.
This can raise a performance monitor exception.  We need to catch this to ensure
that we reset the PMC.  In all cases the PMC will be less than 256 cycles from
overflow.

This patch lifts Anton's fix for the problem in perf and applies it to oprofile
as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c