From c2e37a2626a7471875f3a6452b99dfd3809972b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:00:29 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/perf: Add lost exception workaround Some power8 revisions have a hardware bug where we can lose a PMU exception, this commit adds a workaround to detect the bad condition and rectify the situation. See the comment in the commit for a full description. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- Reading git-format-patch failed