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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2010-05-20 00:32:21 +0400
committerKumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>2010-10-14 09:53:05 +0400
commit4267ea72bb09dc58f006df26c8d3e897489fabca (patch)
tree558bd1e7ce1d8d42dca5ce0a2e0cc2886e28d124 /arch/powerpc/oprofile
parent4f0e332239e2b5f79757cb8f8f3db16c66f5d220 (diff)
downloadlinux-4267ea72bb09dc58f006df26c8d3e897489fabca.tar.xz
oprofile/fsl emb: Don't set MSR[PMM] until after clearing the interrupt.
On an arch 2.06 hypervisor, a pending perfmon interrupt will be delivered to the hypervisor at any point the guest is running, regardless of MSR[EE]. In order to reflect this interrupt, the hypervisor has to mask the interrupt in PMGC0 -- and set MSRP[PMMP] to intercept futher guest accesses to the PMRs to detect when to unmask (and prevent the guest from unmasking early, or seeing inconsistent state). This has the side effect of ignoring any changes the guest makes to MSR[PMM], so wait until after the interrupt is clear, and thus the hypervisor should have cleared MSRP[PMMP], before setting MSR[PMM]. The counters wil not actually run until PMGC0[FAC] is cleared in pmc_start_ctrs(), so this will not reduce the effectiveness of PMM. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/oprofile')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c
index 62312abffa28..d4e6507277b5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_fsl_emb.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
* Freescale Embedded oprofile support, based on ppc64 oprofile support
* Copyright (C) 2004 Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>, IBM
*
- * Copyright (c) 2004 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc
+ * Copyright (c) 2004, 2010 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc
*
* Author: Andy Fleming
* Maintainer: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
@@ -321,9 +321,6 @@ static void fsl_emb_handle_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs,
int val;
int i;
- /* set the PMM bit (see comment below) */
- mtmsr(mfmsr() | MSR_PMM);
-
pc = regs->nip;
is_kernel = is_kernel_addr(pc);
@@ -340,9 +337,13 @@ static void fsl_emb_handle_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs,
}
/* The freeze bit was set by the interrupt. */
- /* Clear the freeze bit, and reenable the interrupt.
- * The counters won't actually start until the rfi clears
- * the PMM bit */
+ /* Clear the freeze bit, and reenable the interrupt. The
+ * counters won't actually start until the rfi clears the PMM
+ * bit. The PMM bit should not be set until after the interrupt
+ * is cleared to avoid it getting lost in some hypervisor
+ * environments.
+ */
+ mtmsr(mfmsr() | MSR_PMM);
pmc_start_ctrs(1);
}