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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:41:22 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
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Subject: [tip:perf/urgent] perf, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters

Commit-ID:  63e6be6d98e1a2bcdca86872b67052e51ab6afa1
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/63e6be6d98e1a2bcdca86872b67052e51ab6afa1
Author:     Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:20:34 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:21:41 +0200

perf, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters

Some cpus still deliver spurious interrupts after disabling a
counter. This caused 'undelivered NMI' messages. This patch
fixes this. Introduced by:

  4177c42: perf, x86: Try to handle unknown nmis with an enabled PMU

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc: gorcunov@...il.com <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc: fweisbec@...il.com <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: ying.huang@...el.com <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: ming.m.lin@...el.com <ming.m.lin@...el.com>
Cc: yinghai@...nel.org <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc: andi@...stfloor.org <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: eranian@...gle.com <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100915162034.GO13563@...a.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 3efdf28..03a5b03 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct cpu_hw_events {
 	 */
 	struct perf_event	*events[X86_PMC_IDX_MAX]; /* in counter order */
 	unsigned long		active_mask[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];
+	unsigned long		running[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];
 	int			enabled;
 
 	int			n_events;
@@ -1010,6 +1011,7 @@ static int x86_pmu_start(struct perf_event *event)
 	x86_perf_event_set_period(event);
 	cpuc->events[idx] = event;
 	__set_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask);
+	__set_bit(idx, cpuc->running);
 	x86_pmu.enable(event);
 	perf_event_update_userpage(event);
 
@@ -1141,8 +1143,16 @@ static int x86_pmu_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
 
 	for (idx = 0; idx < x86_pmu.num_counters; idx++) {
-		if (!test_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask))
+		if (!test_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask)) {
+			/*
+			 * Though we deactivated the counter some cpus
+			 * might still deliver spurious interrupts still
+			 * in flight. Catch them:
+			 */
+			if (__test_and_clear_bit(idx, cpuc->running))
+				handled++;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		event = cpuc->events[idx];
 		hwc = &event->hw;
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