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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)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:47:07 +0000 (12:47 -0400)
commit80eef4d52211ad1f943b7bedc571ab685c598311
tree2eec0174daf381bdb46cd34e28d64dc7e4bb73a0
parentac81856928ccc6e8d3076f9eb11cab93f64996f0
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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c