This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values >= 0x80000000
to the 3.4-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:
powerpc-perf-never-program-book3s-pmcs-with-values-0x80000000.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f56029410a13cae3652d1f34788045c40a13ffc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:15:38 +1000
Subject: powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values >= 0x80000000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f56029410a13cae3652d1f34788045c40a13ffc7 upstream.
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.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -472,7 +472,22 @@ static void power_pmu_read(struct perf_e
} 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);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/powerpc-perf-never-program-book3s-pmcs-with-values-0x80000000.patch
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