[PATCH] perf, x86: catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters

From: Robert Richter
Date: Wed Sep 15 2010 - 10:12:59 EST


Some cpus still deliver spurious interrupts after disabling a counter.
This caused 'undelivered NMI' messages. This patch fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 3efdf28..df7aabd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct cpu_hw_events {
*/
struct perf_event *events[X86_PMC_IDX_MAX]; /* in counter order */
unsigned long active_mask[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];
+ unsigned long running[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];
int enabled;

int n_events;
@@ -1010,6 +1011,7 @@ static int x86_pmu_start(struct perf_event *event)
x86_perf_event_set_period(event);
cpuc->events[idx] = event;
__set_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask);
+ __set_bit(idx, cpuc->running);
x86_pmu.enable(event);
perf_event_update_userpage(event);

@@ -1141,8 +1143,17 @@ static int x86_pmu_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);

for (idx = 0; idx < x86_pmu.num_counters; idx++) {
- if (!test_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask))
+ if (!test_bit(idx, cpuc->active_mask)) {
+ if (__test_and_clear_bit(idx, cpuc->running))
+ /*
+ * Though we deactivated the counter
+ * some cpus might still deliver
+ * spurious interrupts. Catching them
+ * here.
+ */
+ handled++;
continue;
+ }

event = cpuc->events[idx];
hwc = &event->hw;
--
1.7.2.2





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