From 8903461c9bc56fcb041fb92d054e2529951770b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:20:04 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB In the recent commit b50a6c584bb4 "Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU", I screwed up the handling of MMCR2 for tasks using EBB. We must make sure we set MMCR2 *before* ebb_switch_in(), otherwise we overwrite the value of MMCR2 that userspace may have written. That potentially breaks a task that uses EBB and manually uses MMCR2 for event freezing. Fixes: b50a6c584bb4 ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- Reading git-format-patch failed