releases/3.4.99/powerpc-perf-never-program-book3s-pmcs-with-values-0x80000000.patch

From f56029410a13cae3652d1f34788045c40a13ffc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:15:38 +1000
Subject: powerpc/perf: Never program book3s PMCs with values >= 0x80000000

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

commit f56029410a13cae3652d1f34788045c40a13ffc7 upstream.

We are seeing a lot of PMU warnings on POWER8:

    Can't find PMC that caused IRQ

Looking closer, the active PMC is 0 at this point and we took a PMU
exception on the transition from negative to 0. Some versions of POWER8
have an issue where they edge detect and not level detect PMC overflows.

A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left),
where period_left can be negative. We can either fix all of these or
just ensure that period_left is always >= 1.

This patch takes the second option.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c |   17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -472,7 +472,22 @@ static void power_pmu_read(struct perf_e
 	} while (local64_cmpxchg(&event->hw.prev_count, prev, val) != prev);
 
 	local64_add(delta, &event->count);
-	local64_sub(delta, &event->hw.period_left);
+
+	/*
+	 * A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left).
+	 * We never want period_left to be less than 1 because we will program
+	 * the PMC with a value >= 0x800000000 and an edge detected PMC will
+	 * roll around to 0 before taking an exception. We have seen this
+	 * on POWER8.
+	 *
+	 * To fix this, clamp the minimum value of period_left to 1.
+	 */
+	do {
+		prev = local64_read(&event->hw.period_left);
+		val = prev - delta;
+		if (val < 1)
+			val = 1;
+	} while (local64_cmpxchg(&event->hw.period_left, prev, val) != prev);
 }
 
 /*