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| author | Athira Rajeev <[email protected]> | 2020-12-01 04:28:00 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> | 2020-12-04 01:01:21 +1100 |
| commit | f66de7ac4849eb42a7b18e26b8ee49e08130fd27 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d855ca48ac68b20598de236f85587b793a313e3 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | c9344769e2b46ba28b947bec7a8a8f0a091ecd57 (diff) | |
powerpc/perf: Invoke per-CPU variable access with disabled interrupts
The power_pmu_event_init() callback access per-cpu variable
(cpu_hw_events) to check for event constraints and Branch Stack
(BHRB). Current usage is to disable preemption when accessing the
per-cpu variable, but this does not prevent timer callback from
interrupting event_init. Fix this by using 'local_irq_save/restore'
to make sure the code path is invoked with disabled interrupts.
This change is tested in mambo simulator to ensure that, if a timer
interrupt comes in during the per-cpu access in event_init, it will be
soft masked and replayed later. For testing purpose, introduced a
udelay() in power_pmu_event_init() to make sure a timer interrupt arrives
while in per-cpu variable access code between local_irq_save/resore.
As expected the timer interrupt was replayed later during local_irq_restore
called from power_pmu_event_init. This was confirmed by adding
breakpoint in mambo and checking the backtrace when timer_interrupt
was hit.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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