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Commit c24cb8e5 authored by Eric B Munson's avatar Eric B Munson Committed by Willy Tarreau
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powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing

commit ad5d5292 upstream.

Commit 0837e324

 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: default avatarEric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
parent 4989f242
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