ARM: 7355/1: perf: clear overflow flag when disabling counter on ARMv7 PMU
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:34:22 +0000 (17:34 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 09:40:49 +0000 (09:40 +0000)
When disabling a counter on an ARMv7 PMU, we should also clear the
overflow flag in case an overflow occurred whilst stopping the counter.
This prevents a spurious overflow being picked up later and leading to
either false accounting or a NULL dereference.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c

index 6f48861..050cc8b 100644 (file)
@@ -809,6 +809,11 @@ static inline int armv7_pmnc_disable_intens(int idx)
 
        counter = ARMV7_IDX_TO_COUNTER(idx);
        asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c9, c14, 2" : : "r" (BIT(counter)));
+       isb();
+       /* Clear the overflow flag in case an interrupt is pending. */
+       asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c9, c12, 3" : : "r" (BIT(counter)));
+       isb();
+
        return idx;
 }