linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf_counter/powerpc: Avoid oops on cpus without perf

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Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:59:45 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf_counter/powerpc: Avoid oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support

If we have the powerpc perf_counter backend compiled in, but the cpu
we are running on is one where we don't support the PMU, we currently
oops in hw_perf_group_sched_in if we try to use any counters, because
ppmu is NULL in that case, and we unconditionally dereference ppmu.

This fixes the problem by adding a check if ppmu is NULL at the
beginning of hw_perf_group_sched_in, and also at the beginning of the
other functions that get called from the perf_counter core, i.e.
hw_perf_disable, hw_perf_enable, and hw_perf_counter_setup.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
---
This also needs to go in 2.6.31.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
index 809fdf9..70e1f57 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -518,6 +518,8 @@ void hw_perf_disable(void)
 	struct cpu_hw_counters *cpuhw;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	if (!ppmu)
+		return;
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	cpuhw = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_counters);
 
@@ -572,6 +574,8 @@ void hw_perf_enable(void)
 	int n_lim;
 	int idx;
 
+	if (!ppmu)
+		return;
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	cpuhw = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_counters);
 	if (!cpuhw->disabled) {
@@ -737,6 +741,8 @@ int hw_perf_group_sched_in(struct perf_counter *group_leader,
 	long i, n, n0;
 	struct perf_counter *sub;
 
+	if (!ppmu)
+		return 0;
 	cpuhw = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_counters);
 	n0 = cpuhw->n_counters;
 	n = collect_events(group_leader, ppmu->n_counter - n0,
@@ -1281,6 +1287,8 @@ void hw_perf_counter_setup(int cpu)
 {
 	struct cpu_hw_counters *cpuhw = &per_cpu(cpu_hw_counters, cpu);
 
+	if (!ppmu)
+		return;
 	memset(cpuhw, 0, sizeof(*cpuhw));
 	cpuhw->mmcr[0] = MMCR0_FC;
 }
-- 
1.6.0.4

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