In the recent commit b50a6c58 "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: b50a6c58 ("powerpc/perf: Clear MMCR2 when enabling PMU")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We are seeing a lot of PMU warnings on POWER8:

    Can't find PMC that caused IRQ

Looking closer, the active PMC is 0 at this point and we took a PMU
exception on the transition from negative to 0. Some versions of POWER8
have an issue where they edge detect and not level detect PMC overflows.

A number of places program the PMC with (0x80000000 - period_left),
where period_left can be negative. We can either fix all of these or
just ensure that period_left is always >= 1.

This patch takes the second option.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On POWER8 when switching to a KVM guest we set bits in MMCR2 to freeze
the PMU counters. Aside from on boot they are then never reset,
resulting in stuck perf counters for any user in the guest or host.

We now set MMCR2 to 0 whenever enabling the PMU, which provides a sane
state for perf to use the PMU counters under either the guest or the
host.

This was manifesting as a bug with ppc64_cpu --frequency:

    $ sudo ppc64_cpu --frequency
    WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 0
    WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 8
      ...
    WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 144
    WARNING: couldn't run on cpu 152
    min:    18446744073.710 GHz (cpu -1)
    max:    0.000 GHz (cpu -1)
    avg:    0.000 GHz

The command uses a perf counter to measure CPU cycles over a fixed
amount of time, in order to approximate the frequency of the machine.
The counters were returning zero once a guest was started, regardless of
weather it was still running or had been shut down.

By dumping the value of MMCR2, it was observed that once a guest is
running MMCR2 is set to 1s - which stops counters from running:

    $ sudo sh -c 'echo p > /proc/sysrq-trigger'
    CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER8 n_counters = 6
    PMC1:  5b635e38 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
    PMC5:  1bf5a646 PMC6: 5793d378 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
    MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 000000001e000000 MMCRA: 0000040000000000
    MMCR2: fffffffffffffc00 EBBHR: 0000000000000000
    EBBRR: 0000000000000000 BESCR: 0000000000000000
    SIAR:  00000000000a51cc SDAR:  c00000000fc40000 SIER:  0000000001000000

This is done unconditionally in book3s_hv_interrupts.S upon entering the
guest, and the original value is only save/restored if the host has
indicated it was using the PMU. This is okay, however the user of the
PMU needs to ensure that it is in a defined state when it starts using
it.

Fixes: e05b9b9e ("powerpc/perf: Power8 PMU support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Instead of separate bits for every POWER8 PMU feature, have a single one
for v2.07 of the architecture.

This saves us adding a MMCR2 define for a future patch.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJoel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Acked-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The previous commit added constraint and register handling to allow
processes using EBB (Event Based Branches) to request access to the BHRB
(Branch History Rolling Buffer).

With that in place we can allow processes using EBB to access the BHRB.
This is achieved by setting BHRBA in MMCR0 when we enable EBB access. We
must also clear BHRBA when we are disabling.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Although we already block EBB events which request sampling using
sample_period, technically it's possible for an event to set sample_type
but not sample_period.

Nothing terrible will happen if an EBB event does specify sample_type,
but it signals a major confusion on the part of userspace, and so we do
them the favor of rejecting it.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Some power8 revisions have a hardware bug where we can lose a PMU
exception, this commit adds a workaround to detect the bad condition and
rectify the situation.

See the comment in the commit for a full description.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Currently the sysrq ShowRegs command does not print any PMU registers as
we have an empty definition for perf_event_print_debug(). This patch
defines perf_event_print_debug() to print various PMU registers.

Example output:

CPU: 0 PMU registers, ppmu = POWER7 n_counters = 6
PMC1:  00000000 PMC2: 00000000 PMC3: 00000000 PMC4: 00000000
PMC5:  00000000 PMC6: 00000000 PMC7: deadbeef PMC8: deadbeef
MMCR0: 0000000080000000 MMCR1: 0000000000000000 MMCRA: 0f00000001000000
SIAR:  0000000000000000 SDAR:  0000000000000000 SIER:  0000000000000000
Signed-off-by: NAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fix 32 bit build and rework formatting for compactness]
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Right now the config_bhrb() PMU specific call happens after
write_mmcr0(), which actually enables the PMU for event counting and
interrupts. So there is a small window of time where the PMU and BHRB
runs without the required HW branch filter (if any) enabled in BHRB.

This can cause some of the branch samples to be collected through BHRB
without any filter applied and hence affects the correctness of
the results. This patch moves the BHRB config function call before
enabling interrupts.

Here are some data points captured via trace prints which depicts how we
could get PMU interrupts with BHRB filter NOT enabled with a standard
perf record command line (asking for branch record information as well).

    $ perf record -j any_call ls

Before the patch:-

    ls-1962  [003] d...  2065.299590: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40000000000
    ls-1962  [003] d...  2065.299603: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40000000000
    ...

    All the PMU interrupts before this point did not have the requested
    HW branch filter enabled in the MMCRA.

    ls-1962  [003] d...  2065.299647: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
    ls-1962  [003] d...  2065.299662: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000

After the patch:-

    ls-1850  [008] d...   190.311828: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000
    ls-1850  [008] d...   190.311848: .perf_event_interrupt: MMCRA: 40040000000

    All the PMU interrupts have the requested HW BHRB branch filter
    enabled in MMCRA.
Signed-off-by: NAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fixed up whitespace and cleaned up changelog]
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Address some of the trivial sparse warnings in arch/powerpc.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We use bit 63 of the event code for userspace to request that the event
be counted using EBB (Event Based Branches). Export this value, making
it part of the API - though only on processors that support EBB.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

When the task moves around the system, the corresponding cpuhw
per cpu strcuture should be popullated with the BHRB filter
request value so that PMU could be configured appropriately with
that during the next call into power_pmu_enable().
Signed-off-by: NAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Add support for EBB (Event Based Branches) on 64-bit book3s. See the
included documentation for more details.

EBBs are a feature which allows the hardware to branch directly to a
specified user space address when a PMU event overflows. This can be
used by programs for self-monitoring with no kernel involvement in the
inner loop.

Most of the logic is in the generic book3s code, primarily to avoid a
proliferation of PMU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In power_pmu_enable() we still enable the PMU even if we have zero
events. This should have no effect but doesn't make much sense. Instead
just return after telling the hypervisor that we are not using the PMCs.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In power_pmu_enable() we can use the existing out label to reduce the
number of return paths.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On Power8 we can freeze PMC5 and 6 if we're not using them. Normally they
run all the time.

As noticed by Anshuman, we should unfreeze them when we disable the PMU
as there are legacy tools which expect them to run all the time.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In pmu_disable() we disable the PMU by setting the FC (Freeze Counters)
bit in MMCR0. In order to do this we have to read/modify/write MMCR0.

It's possible that we read a value from MMCR0 which has PMAO (PMU Alert
Occurred) set. When we write that value back it will cause an interrupt
to occur. We will then end up in the PMU interrupt handler even though
we are supposed to have just disabled the PMU.

We can avoid this by making sure we never write PMAO back. We should not
lose interrupts because when the PMU is re-enabled the overflowed values
will cause another interrupt.

We also reorder the clearing of SAMPLE_ENABLE so that is done after the
PMU is frozen. Otherwise there is a small window between the clearing of
SAMPLE_ENABLE and the setting of FC where we could take an interrupt and
incorrectly see SAMPLE_ENABLE not set. This would for example change the
logic in perf_read_regs().
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.10]
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the powerpc uses of the __cpuinit macros.  There
are no __CPUINIT users in assembly files in powerpc.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In commit bc09c219 "Fix finding overflowed PMC in interrupt" we added
a printk() to the PMU exception handler. Unfortunately that is not safe.

The problem is that the PMU exception may run even when interrupts are
soft disabled, aka NMI context. We do this so that we can profile parts
of the kernel that have interrupts soft-disabled.

But by calling printk() from the exception handler, we can potentially
deadlock in the printk code on logbuf_lock, eg:

  [c00000038ba575c0] c000000000081928 .vprintk_emit+0xa8/0x540
  [c00000038ba576a0] c0000000007bcde8 .printk+0x48/0x58
  [c00000038ba57710] c000000000076504 .perf_event_interrupt+0x2d4/0x490
  [c00000038ba57810] c00000000001f6f8 .performance_monitor_exception+0x48/0x60
  [c00000038ba57880] c0000000000032cc performance_monitor_common+0x14c/0x180
  --- Exception: f01 (Performance Monitor) at c0000000007b25d4 ._raw_spin_lock_irq
  +0x64/0xc0
  [c00000038ba57bf0] c00000000007ed90 .devkmsg_read+0xd0/0x5a0
  [c00000038ba57d00] c0000000001c2934 .vfs_read+0xc4/0x1e0
  [c00000038ba57d90] c0000000001c2cd8 .SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
  [c00000038ba57e30] c000000000009d54 syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
  --- Exception: c01 (System Call) at 00001fffffbf6f7c
  SP (3ffff6d4de10) is in userspace

Fix it by making sure we only call printk() when we are not in NMI
context.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Commit 8f61aa32 "Add support for SIER" missed updates to siar_valid()
and perf_get_data_addr().

In both cases we need to check the SIER instead of mmcra.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This is a revert and then some of commit 860aad71 "Add regs_no_sipr()".
This workaround was only needed on early chip versions.

As before NO_SIPR becomes a static flag of the PMU struct.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Currently we only set the "to" address in the branch stack when the CPU
explicitly gives us a value.  Unfortunately it only does this for XL form
branches (eg blr, bctr, bctar) and not I and B form branches (eg b, bc).

Fortunately if we read the instruction from memory we can extract the offset of
a branch and calculate the target address.

This adds a function power_pmu_bhrb_to() to calculate the target/to address of
the corresponding I and B form branches.  It handles branches in both user and
kernel spaces.  It also plumbs this into the perf brhb reading code.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The current Branch History Rolling Buffer (BHRB) code misinterprets the order
of entries in the hardware buffer.  It assumes that a branch target address
will be read _after_ its corresponding branch.  In reality the branch target
comes before (lower mfbhrb entry) it's corresponding branch.

This is a rewrite of the code to take this into account.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The new Branch History Rolling buffer (BHRB) code is only useful on 64bit
processors, so move it into the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 region.

This avoids code bloat on 32bit systems.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Provides basic enablement for perf branch stack sampling framework on
POWER8 processor based platforms. Adds new BHRB related elements into
cpu_hw_event structure to represent current BHRB config, BHRB filter
configuration, manage context and to hold output BHRB buffer during
PMU interrupt before passing to the user space. This also enables
processing of BHRB data and converts them into generic perf branch
stack data format.
Signed-off-by: NAnshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On power8 we have a new SIER (Sampled Instruction Event Register), which
captures information about instructions when we have random sampling
enabled.

Add support for loading the SIER into pt_regs, overloading regs->dar.
Also set the new NO_SIPR flag in regs->result if we don't have SIPR.

Update regs_sihv/sipr() to look for SIPR/SIHV in SIER.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On power8 the presence or absence of SIPR depends on settings at runtime,
so convert to using a dynamic flag for NO_SIPR. Existing backends that
set NO_SIPR unconditionally set the dynamic flag obviously.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Add an accessor for regs->result so we can use it to store more flags in
future.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On power8 the SIPR and SIHV are not in MMCRA, so convert the routines
to take regs and change the names accordingly.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

In perf_ip_adjust() we potentially use the MMCRA[SLOT] field to adjust
the reported IP of a sampled instruction.

Currently the logic is written so that if the backend does NOT have
the PPMU_ALT_SIPR flag set then we assume MMCRA[SLOT] exists.

However on power8 we do not want to set ALT_SIPR (it's in a third
location), and we also do not have MMCRA[SLOT].

So add a new flag which only indicates whether MMCRA[SLOT] exists.

Naively we'd set it on everything except power6/7, because they set
ALT_SIPR, and we've reversed the polarity of the flag. But it's more
complicated than that.

mpc7450 is 32-bit, and uses its own version of perf_ip_adjust()
which doesn't use MMCRA[SLOT], so it doesn't need the new flag set and
the behaviour is unchanged.

PPC970 (and I assume power4) don't have MMCRA[SLOT], so shouldn't have
the new flag set. This is a behaviour change on those cpus, though we
were probably getting lucky and the bits in question were 0.

power5 and power5+ set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.

power6 & power7 do not set the new flag, behaviour unchanged.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

Make the generic perf events in POWER7 available via sysfs.

	$ ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events
	branch-instructions
	branch-misses
	cache-misses
	cache-references
	cpu-cycles
	instructions
	stalled-cycles-backend
	stalled-cycles-frontend

	$ cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/events/cache-misses
	event=0x400f0

This patch is based on commits that implement this functionality on x86.
Eg:
	commit a4747393
	Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
	Date:   Wed Oct 10 14:53:11 2012 +0200

	    perf/x86: Make hardware event translations available in sysfs

Changelog:[v2]
	[Jiri Osla] Drop EVENT_ID() macro since it is only used once.
Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130123062454.GD13720@us.ibm.comSigned-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf/Power: PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE does not reenable event

If we disable a perf event because we exceeded the specified ->event_limit,
power_pmu_stop() sets the PERF_HES_STOPPED flag on the event.

If the application then re-enables the event using PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl, we don't ever clear this STOPPED flag. Consequently, the user space
is never notified of the event.

Following message has more background and test case.

    http://lists.eecs.utk.edu/pipermail/ptools-perfapi/2012-October/002528.html

Used the following test cases to verify that this patch works on latest PAPI.

	$ papi.git/src/ctests/nonthread PAPI_TOT_CYC@5000000

	$ papi.git/src/ctests/overflow_single_event

Changelog[v2]:
	- [Paul Mackerras] Also clear PERF_HES_UPTODATE flag since we are
	  restarting the event; cleanup comments and patch description.
Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

On POWER7 when we have really small counts left before overflow, we can take a
PMU IRQ, but the PMC gets wound back to just before the overflow.

If the kernel is setting the PMC to a value just before the overflow, we can
get interrupted again without the PMC making any progress (ie another buggy
overflow).  In this case, we can end up making no forward progress, with the
PMC interrupt returning us to the same count over and over.

The below detects when we are making no forward progress (ie. delta = 0) and
then increases the amount left before the overflow.  This stops us from locking
up.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

If a PMC is about to overflow on a counter that's on an active perf event
(ie. less than 256 from the end) and a _different_ PMC overflows just at this
time (a PMC that's not on an active perf event), we currently mark the event as
found, but in reality it's not as it's likely the other PMC that caused the
IRQ.  Since we mark it as found the second catch all for overflows doesn't run,
and we don't reset the overflowing PMC ever.  Hence we keep hitting that same
PMC IRQ over and over and don't reset the actual overflowing counter.

This is a rewrite of the perf interrupt handler for book3s to get around this.
We now check to see if any of the PMCs have actually overflowed (ie >=
0x80000000).  If yes, record it for active counters and just reset it for
inactive counters.  If it's not overflowed, then we check to see if it's one of
the buggy power7 counters and if it is, record it and continue.  If none of the
PMCs match this, then we make note that we couldn't find the PMC that caused
the IRQ.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
cc: Linux PPC dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

This reverts commit 81331211.

This revert was requested by the author of the patch as it seems
to cause system hangs with some low frequency events

powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+

On POWER7+ two new bits (mmcra[35] and mmcra[36]) indicate whether the
contents of SIAR and SDAR are valid.

For marked instructions on P7+, we must save the contents of SIAR and
SDAR registers only if these new bits are set.

This code/check for the SIAR-Valid bit is specific to P7+, so rather than
waste a CPU-feature bit use the PVR flag.

Note that Carl Love proposed a similar change for oprofile:

        https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/22/309Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

We have an old FIXME in reg.h which points out that we should standardise
on PVR_foo for our PVR #defines. Currently we use PVR_ on 32-bit and PV_
on 64-bit.

So do that rename and remove the FIXME.

Seeing as we're touching all but one usage of __is_processor(), rename it
to something less ugly and more indicative of what it does, which is
simply to check the PVR version.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

For certain speculative events on Power7, 'perf stat' reports far higher
event count than 'perf record' for the same event.

As described in following commit, a performance monitor exception is raised
even when the the performance events are rolled back.

        commit 0837e324
        Author: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
        Date:   Wed Mar 9 14:38:42 2011 +1100

perf_event_interrupt() records an event only when an overflow occurs. But
this check for overflow is a simple 'if (val < 0)'.

Because the events are rolled back, this check for overflow fails and the
event is not recorded. perf_event_interrupt() later uses pmc_overflow() to
detect the overflow and resets the counters and the events are lost completely.

To properly detect the overflow of rolled back events, use pmc_overflow()
even when recording events.

To reproduce:
        $ cat strcpy.c
        #include <stdio.h>
        #include <string.h>
        main()
        {
                char buf[256];

                alarm(5);
                while(1)
                        strcpy(buf, "string1");
        }

        $ perf record -e r20014 ./strcpy
        $ perf report -n > report.1
        $ perf stat -e r20014 > report.2
        # Compare report.1 and report.2
Reported-by: NMaynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

At the moment we always use the SIAR if the PMU supports continuous
sampling. Unfortunately the SIAR and the PMU exception are not
synchronised for non marked events so we can end up with callchains
that dont make sense.

The following patch checks the HV and PR bits for samples coming from
userspace and always uses pt_regs for them. Userspace will never have
interrupts off so there is no real advantage to using the SIAR for
non marked events in userspace.

I had experimented with a patch that did a similar thing for kernel
samples but we lost a significant amount of information. I was
unable to profile any of our early exception code for example.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

The logic to choose whether to use the SIAR or get the information
out of pt_regs is going to get more complicated, so do it once in
perf_read_regs.

We overload regs->result which is gross but we are already doing it
with regs->dsisr.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>