linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/powerpc
Paul Mackerras 9bc01a9bc7 KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs
This adds workarounds for two hardware bugs in the POWER8 performance
monitor unit (PMU), both related to interrupt generation.  The effect
of these bugs is that PMU interrupts can get lost, leading to tools
such as perf reporting fewer counts and samples than they should.

The first bug relates to the PMAO (perf. mon. alert occurred) bit in
MMCR0; setting it should cause an interrupt, but doesn't.  The other
bug relates to the PMAE (perf. mon. alert enable) bit in MMCR0.
Setting PMAE when a counter is negative and counter negative
conditions are enabled to cause alerts should cause an alert, but
doesn't.

The workaround for the first bug is to create conditions where a
counter will overflow, whenever we are about to restore a MMCR0
value that has PMAO set (and PMAO_SYNC clear).  The workaround for
the second bug is to freeze all counters using MMCR2 before reading
MMCR0.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
2014-05-30 14:26:29 +02:00
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boot
configs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
crypto
include KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs 2014-05-30 14:26:29 +02:00
kernel PPC: ePAPR: Fix hypercall on LE guest 2014-05-30 14:26:26 +02:00
kvm KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around POWER8 performance monitor bugs 2014-05-30 14:26:29 +02:00
lib
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm power, sched: stop updating inside arch_update_cpu_topology() when nothing to be update 2014-04-09 12:54:17 +10:00
net
oprofile
perf
platforms More ACPI and power management fixes and updates for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-11 13:20:04 -07:00
sysdev Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2014-04-09 08:35:31 -07:00
xmon
Kconfig Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-04-12 12:38:53 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile powerpc/le: Avoid creatng R_PPC64_TOCSAVE relocations for modules. 2014-04-09 12:53:44 +10:00
relocs_check.pl