Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/4xx: Adding PCIe MSI support
  powerpc: Fix irq_free_virt by adjusting bounds before loop
  powerpc/irq: Protect irq_radix_revmap_lookup against irq_free_virt
  powerpc/irq: Check desc in handle_one_irq and expand generic_handle_irq
  powerpc/irq: Always free duplicate IRQ_LEGACY hosts
  powerpc/irq: Remove stale and misleading comment
  powerpc/cell: Rename ipi functions to match current abstractions
  powerpc/cell: Use common smp ipi actions
  Remove unused MSG_ flags in linux/smp.h
  powerpc/pseries: Update MAX_HCALL_OPCODE to reflect page coalescing
  powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing
  powerpc/ftrace: Implement raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c
index 8ee51a252cf1..e6bec74be131 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_power4.c
@@ -261,6 +261,28 @@ static int get_kernel(unsigned long pc, unsigned long mmcra)
 	return is_kernel;
 }
 
+static bool pmc_overflow(unsigned long val)
+{
+	if ((int)val < 0)
+		return true;
+
+	/*
+	 * Events on POWER7 can roll back if a speculative event doesn't
+	 * eventually complete. Unfortunately in some rare cases they will
+	 * raise a performance monitor exception. We need to catch this to
+	 * ensure we reset the PMC. In all cases the PMC will be 256 or less
+	 * cycles from overflow.
+	 *
+	 * We only do this if the first pass fails to find any overflowing
+	 * PMCs because a user might set a period of less than 256 and we
+	 * don't want to mistakenly reset them.
+	 */
+	if (__is_processor(PV_POWER7) && ((0x80000000 - val) <= 256))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static void power4_handle_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs,
 				    struct op_counter_config *ctr)
 {
@@ -281,7 +303,7 @@ static void power4_handle_interrupt(struct pt_regs *regs,
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cur_cpu_spec->num_pmcs; ++i) {
 		val = classic_ctr_read(i);
-		if (val < 0) {
+		if (pmc_overflow(val)) {
 			if (oprofile_running && ctr[i].enabled) {
 				oprofile_add_ext_sample(pc, regs, i, is_kernel);
 				classic_ctr_write(i, reset_value[i]);