[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jul 23 17:20:04 EST 2014


In the recent commit b50a6c584bb4 "Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU", I
screwed up the handling of MMCR2 for tasks using EBB.

We must make sure we set MMCR2 *before* ebb_switch_in(), otherwise we
overwrite the value of MMCR2 that userspace may have written. That
potentially breaks a task that uses EBB and manually uses MMCR2 for
event freezing.

Fixes: b50a6c584bb4 ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 6b0641c3f03f..fe52db2eea6a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1307,6 +1307,9 @@ static void power_pmu_enable(struct pmu *pmu)
  out_enable:
 	pmao_restore_workaround(ebb);
 
+	if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_207S)
+		mtspr(SPRN_MMCR2, 0);
+
 	mmcr0 = ebb_switch_in(ebb, cpuhw->mmcr[0]);
 
 	mb();
@@ -1315,9 +1318,6 @@ static void power_pmu_enable(struct pmu *pmu)
 
 	write_mmcr0(cpuhw, mmcr0);
 
-	if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_207S)
-		mtspr(SPRN_MMCR2, 0);
-
 	/*
 	 * Enable instruction sampling if necessary
 	 */
-- 
1.9.1



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