On POWER8 when switching to a KVM guest we set bits in MMCR2 to freeze
the PMU counters. Aside from on boot they are then never reset,
resulting in stuck perf counters for any user in the guest or host.
We now set MMCR2 to 0 whenever enabling the PMU, which provides a sane
state for perf to use the PMU counters under either the guest or the
host.
This was manifesting as a bug with ppc64_cpu --frequency:
$ sudo ppc64_cpu --frequency
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 0
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 8
...
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 144
WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 152
min: 18446744073.710 GHz (cpu -1)
max: 0.000 GHz (cpu -1)
avg: 0.000 GHz
The command uses a perf counter to measure CPU cycles over a fixed
amount of time, in order to approximate the frequency of the machine.
The counters were returning zero once a guest was started, regardless of
weather it was still running or had been shut down.
By dumping the value of MMCR2, it was observed that once a guest is
running MMCR2 is set to 1s - which stops counters from running:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo p > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER8 n_counters = 6
PMC1: 5b635e38 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
PMC5: 1bf5a646 PMC6: 5793d378 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 000000001e000000 MMCRA: 0000040000000000
MMCR2: fffffffffffffc00 EBBHR: 0000000000000000
EBBRR: 0000000000000000 BESCR: 0000000000000000
SIAR: 00000000000a51cc SDAR: c00000000fc40000 SIER: 0000000001000000
This is done unconditionally in book3s_hv_interrupts.S upon entering the
guest, and the original value is only save/restored if the host has
indicated it was using the PMU. This is okay, however the user of the
PMU needs to ensure that it is in a defined state when it starts using
it.
Fixes: e05b9b9e5c10 ("powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index a2ff1bd..bae697c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1300,6 +1300,9 @@ static void power_pmu_enable(struct pmu *pmu)
write_mmcr0(cpuhw, mmcr0);
+ if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_207S)
+ mtspr(SPRN_MMCR2, 0);
+
/*
* Enable instruction sampling if necessary
*/
--
2.0.0
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