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powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB
authorMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:20:04 +0000 (17:20 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:16:47 +0000 (17:16 +1000)
commitaca48761455b8a265107b8f446911f621925bcf9
tree56c803836b9612a4e0cf25471df04621a4307cbd
parent0e2520867b01fe2afd8c60c0c95b6b757504af2a
powerpc/perf: Fix MMCR2 handling for EBB

In the recent commit ec88f4379eae "Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU", I
screwed up the handling of MMCR2 for tasks using EBB.

We must make sure we set MMCR2 *before* ebb_switch_in(), otherwise we
overwrite the value of MMCR2 that userspace may have written. That
potentially breaks a task that uses EBB and manually uses MMCR2 for
event freezing.

Fixes: ec88f4379eae ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c