ARM: 7355/1: perf: clear overflow flag when disabling counter on ARMv7 PMU
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:34:22 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:40:49 +0000 (09:40 +0000)
When disabling a counter on an ARMv7 PMU, we should also clear the
overflow flag in case an overflow occurred whilst stopping the counter.
This prevents a spurious overflow being picked up later and leading to
either false accounting or a NULL dereference.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

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