[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
Nicholas Piggin
npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 02:34:23 AEDT 2023
When the PMU is disabled, MMCRA is not updated to disable BHRB and
instruction sampling. This can lead to those features remaining enabled,
which can slow down a real or emulated CPU.
Fixes: 1cade527f6e9 ("powerpc/perf: BHRB control to disable BHRB logic when not used")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 8c1f7def596e..10b946e9c6e7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1371,8 +1371,7 @@ static void power_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu)
/*
* Disable instruction sampling if it was enabled
*/
- if (cpuhw->mmcr.mmcra & MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE)
- val &= ~MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE;
+ val &= ~MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE;
/* Disable BHRB via mmcra (BHRBRD) for p10 */
if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_31)
@@ -1383,7 +1382,7 @@ static void power_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu)
* instruction sampling or BHRB.
*/
if (val != mmcra) {
- mtspr(SPRN_MMCRA, mmcra);
+ mtspr(SPRN_MMCRA, val);
mb();
isync();
}
--
2.42.0
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