From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 03:38:42 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
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perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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