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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2014-05-29 08:15:38 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2014-07-11 13:50:47 +1000
commitf56029410a13cae3652d1f34788045c40a13ffc7 (patch)
tree2f0e1a0d05b6f533eeba3b37b0decc2d6cf84677 /arch
parentfb43e8477ed9006c4f397f904c691a120503038c (diff)
powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values >= 0x80000000
We are seeing a lot of PMU warnings on POWER8: Can't find PMC that caused IRQ Looking closer, the active PMC is 0 at this point and we took a PMU exception on the transition from negative to 0. Some versions of POWER8 have an issue where they edge detect and not level detect PMC overflows. A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left), where period_left can be negative. We can either fix all of these or just ensure that period_left is always >= 1. This patch takes the second option. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index bae697cd5925..6b0641c3f03f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -996,7 +996,22 @@ static void power_pmu_read(struct perf_event *event)
} while (local64_cmpxchg(&event->hw.prev_count, prev, val) != prev);
local64_add(delta, &event->count);
- local64_sub(delta, &event->hw.period_left);
+
+ /*
+ * A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left).
+ * We never want period_left to be less than 1 because we will program
+ * the PMC with a value >= 0x800000000 and an edge detected PMC will
+ * roll around to 0 before taking an exception. We have seen this
+ * on POWER8.
+ *
+ * To fix this, clamp the minimum value of period_left to 1.
+ */
+ do {
+ prev = local64_read(&event->hw.period_left);
+ val = prev - delta;
+ if (val < 1)
+ val = 1;
+ } while (local64_cmpxchg(&event->hw.period_left, prev, val) != prev);
}
/*