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/irq.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
index ac222d0..4efb886 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@
: : "r" (enable), "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, soft_enabled)));
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+notrace void __weak perf_counter_do_pending(void)
+{
+ set_perf_counter_pending(0);
+}
+#endif
+
notrace void raw_local_irq_restore(unsigned long en)
{
/*
@@ -135,6 +142,9 @@
iseries_handle_interrupts();
}
+ if (get_perf_counter_pending())
+ perf_counter_do_pending();
+
/*
* if (get_paca()->hard_enabled) return;
* But again we need to take care that gcc gets hard_enabled directly