linux/arch/powerpc/oprofile
Eric B Munson ad5d5292f1 powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
Commit 0837e3242c fixes a situation on POWER7
where events can roll back if a specualtive event doesn't actually complete.
This can raise a performance monitor exception.  We need to catch this to ensure
that we reset the PMC.  In all cases the PMC will be less than 256 cycles from
overflow.

This patch lifts Anton's fix for the problem in perf and applies it to oprofile
as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it applies cleanly
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
..
cell include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Makefile powerpc/Makefiles: Change to new flag variables 2010-10-13 16:19:22 +11:00
backtrace.c powerpc: Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32-bit binary 2010-09-02 14:07:32 +10:00
common.c powerpc/oprofile: Don't build server oprofile drivers on 64-bit BookE 2010-07-14 14:13:54 +10:00
op_model_7450.c powerpc/oprofile: G4 oprofile has variable number of counters 2009-03-11 17:10:16 +11:00
op_model_cell.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
op_model_fsl_emb.c oprofile/fsl emb: Don't set MSR[PMM] until after clearing the interrupt. 2010-10-14 00:53:05 -05:00
op_model_pa6t.c powerpc: Change u64/s64 to a long long integer type 2009-01-13 14:47:59 +11:00
op_model_power4.c powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing 2011-05-26 13:38:57 +10:00
op_model_rs64.c [CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUs 2007-07-20 21:42:24 +02:00