linux-kernel - [25/30] sparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling.

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:15:46 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [25/30] sparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling.

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

[ Upstream commit e04ed38d4e0cd32141f723560efcc8252b0241e2 ]

For chips like Niagara2 that have true overflow indications
in the %pcr (which we don't actually need and don't use)
the interrupt signal persists until the overflow bits are
cleared by an explicit %pcr write.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -986,6 +986,17 @@ static int __kprobes perf_event_nmi_hand
 	data.addr = 0;
 
 	cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
+
+	/* If the PMU has the TOE IRQ enable bits, we need to do a
+	 * dummy write to the %pcr to clear the overflow bits and thus
+	 * the interrupt.
+	 *
+	 * Do this before we peek at the counters to determine
+	 * overflow so we don't lose any events.
+	 */
+	if (sparc_pmu->irq_bit)
+		pcr_ops->write(cpuc->pcr);
+
 	for (idx = 0; idx < MAX_HWEVENTS; idx++) {
 		struct perf_event *event = cpuc->events[idx];
 		struct hw_perf_event *hwc;


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