Patch "perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume" has been added to the 3.8-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume

to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     perf-x86-fix-kernel-crash-with-pebs-bts-after-suspend-resume.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 1d9d8639c063caf6efc2447f5f26aa637f844ff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:26:07 +0100
Subject: perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume

From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1d9d8639c063caf6efc2447f5f26aa637f844ff6 upstream.

This patch fixes a kernel crash when using precise sampling (PEBS)
after a suspend/resume. Turns out the CPU notifier code is not invoked
on CPU0 (BP). Therefore, the DS_AREA (used by PEBS) is not restored properly
by the kernel and keeps it power-on/resume value of 0 causing any PEBS
measurement to crash when running on CPU0.

The workaround is to add a hook in the actual resume code to restore
the DS Area MSR value. It is invoked for all CPUS. So for all but CPU0,
the DS_AREA will be restored twice but this is harmless.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c |    8 ++++++++
 arch/x86/power/cpu.c                      |    2 ++
 include/linux/perf_event.h                |    2 ++
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
@@ -729,3 +729,11 @@ void intel_ds_init(void)
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+void perf_restore_debug_store(void)
+{
+	if (!x86_pmu.bts && !x86_pmu.pebs)
+		return;
+
+	init_debug_store_on_cpu(smp_processor_id());
+}
--- a/arch/x86/power/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/power/cpu.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include <linux/suspend.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/proto.h>
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ static void __restore_processor_state(st
 	do_fpu_end();
 	x86_platform.restore_sched_clock_state();
 	mtrr_bp_restore();
+	perf_restore_debug_store();
 }
 
 /* Needed by apm.c */
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ extern void perf_event_enable(struct per
 extern void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event);
 extern int __perf_event_disable(void *info);
 extern void perf_event_task_tick(void);
+extern void perf_restore_debug_store(void);
 #else
 static inline void
 perf_event_task_sched_in(struct task_struct *prev,
@@ -792,6 +793,7 @@ static inline void perf_event_enable(str
 static inline void perf_event_disable(struct perf_event *event)		{ }
 static inline int __perf_event_disable(void *info)			{ return -1; }
 static inline void perf_event_task_tick(void)				{ }
+static inline void perf_restore_debug_store(void)			{ }
 #endif
 
 #define perf_output_put(handle, x) perf_output_copy((handle), &(x), sizeof(x))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eranian@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.8/perf-x86-fix-kernel-crash-with-pebs-bts-after-suspend-resume.patch
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