perf, powerpc: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 03:38:42 +0000 (14:38 +1100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:04:13 +0000 (14:04 +0100)
commit0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93
treedb77cdc93b99b1433b73a461f44543983af746bc
parent7d5d02dadd43db7f829775e404e82019c5d5586f
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>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c