powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
authorEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Mon, 23 May 2011 04:22:40 +0000 (04:22 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 26 May 2011 03:38:57 +0000 (13:38 +1000)
commitad5d5292f16c6c1d7d3e257c4c7407594286b97e
tree8ff3f0e12f0cd2211aff6d8f1513bdc4b4262eff
parent02424d8966d803e33cbe51469be56b5d177b4a37
powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

Commit 0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 fixes a situation on POWER7
where events can roll back if a specualtive event doesn't actually complete.
This can raise a performance monitor exception.  We need to catch this to ensure
that we reset the PMC.  In all cases the PMC will be less than 256 cycles from
overflow.

This patch lifts Anton's fix for the problem in perf and applies it to oprofile
as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it applies cleanly
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c