powerpc: Provide a way to defer perf counter work until interrupts are enabled
Because 64-bit powerpc uses lazy (soft) interrupt disabling, it is
possible for a performance monitor exception to come in when the
kernel thinks interrupts are disabled (i.e. when they are
soft-disabled but hard-enabled). In such a situation the performance
monitor exception handler might have some processing to do (such as
process wakeups) which can't be done in what is effectively an NMI
handler.
This provides a way to defer that work until interrupts get enabled,
either in raw_local_irq_restore() or by returning from an interrupt
handler to code that had interrupts enabled. We have a per-processor
flag that indicates that there is work pending to do when interrupts
subsequently get re-enabled. This flag is checked in the interrupt
return path and in raw_local_irq_restore(), and if it is set,
perf_counter_do_pending() is called to do the pending work.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 383ed6e..f30b4e5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -526,6 +526,15 @@
2:
TRACE_AND_RESTORE_IRQ(r5);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+ /* check paca->perf_counter_pending if we're enabling ints */
+ lbz r3,PACAPERFPEND(r13)
+ and. r3,r3,r5
+ beq 27f
+ bl .perf_counter_do_pending
+27:
+#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS */
+
/* extract EE bit and use it to restore paca->hard_enabled */
ld r3,_MSR(r1)
rldicl r4,r3,49,63 /* r0 = (r3 >> 15) & 1 */