[ 68/95] ARM: 7355/1: perf: clear overflow flag when disabling counter on ARMv7 PMU

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 09 2012 - 14:49:33 EST


3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

commit 99c1745b9c76910e195889044f914b4898b7c9a5 upstream.

When disabling a counter on an ARMv7 PMU, we should also clear the
overflow flag in case an overflow occurred whilst stopping the counter.
This prevents a spurious overflow being picked up later and leading to
either false accounting or a NULL dereference.

Reported-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
@@ -878,6 +878,11 @@ static inline int armv7_pmnc_disable_int

counter = ARMV7_IDX_TO_COUNTER(idx);
asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c9, c14, 2" : : "r" (BIT(counter)));
+ isb();
+ /* Clear the overflow flag in case an interrupt is pending. */
+ asm volatile("mcr p15, 0, %0, c9, c12, 3" : : "r" (BIT(counter)));
+ isb();
+
return idx;
}



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