powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support

The hard lockup detector uses a PMU event as a periodic NMI to
detect if we are stuck (where stuck means no timer interrupts have
occurred).

Ben's rework of the ppc64 soft disable code has made ppc64 PMU
exceptions a partial NMI. They can get disabled if an external
interrupt comes in, but otherwise PMU interrupts will fire in
interrupt disabled regions.

We disable the hard lockup detector by default for a few reasons:

- It breaks userspace event based branches on POWER8.
- It is likely to produce false positives on KVM guests.
- Since PMCs can only count to 2^31, counting cycles means we might
  take multiple PMU exceptions per second per hardware thread even
  if our hard lockup timeout is 10 seconds.

It can be enabled via a boot option, or via procfs.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index c102668b4225..716c9e6a3160 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ config PPC
 	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
+	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI if PPC64
 
 config GENERIC_CSUM
 	def_bool CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN