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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)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Thu, 17 May 2012 15:20:25 +0000 (11:20 -0400)
commita41dafdf3382095c5160c9612bacda7b82e1292f
treeefd86c46fcf0e88afecaf1ebf2a2598dac534936
parent09f8447f642f2698692cb05076d73b2729830811
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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c