From cb307113746b4d184155d2c412e8069aeaa60d42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Ellerman Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 16:26:39 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] perf_event: Don't allow vmalloc() backed perf on powerpc On powerpc the perf event interrupt is not masked when interrupts are disabled, allowing it to function as an NMI. This causes problems if perf is using vmalloc. If we take a page fault on the vmalloc region the fault handler will fail the page fault because it detects we are coming in from an NMI (see do_hash_page()). We don't actually need or want vmalloc backed perf so just disable it on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Anton Blanchard Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430720799-18426-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-format-patch failed