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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:31:38 +0000 (12:31 -0700)
commit075964ad4370162964f41ba1136b8581ab1a302a
tree7c0b134755dbaa1d4e8f1aa736c4e6d8efdbc9fa
parent14e84b15bcd96521190c5566c440c56553e66fc9
ARM: 7355/1: perf: clear overflow flag when disabling counter on ARMv7 PMU

commit 99c1745b9c76910e195889044f914b4898b7c9a5 upstream.

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.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c