Merge branch 'master' into for-next

Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
index 97e0ae414940..822f63008ae1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -398,6 +398,25 @@ static int check_excludes(struct perf_event **ctrs, unsigned int cflags[],
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static u64 check_and_compute_delta(u64 prev, u64 val)
+{
+	u64 delta = (val - prev) & 0xfffffffful;
+
+	/*
+	 * POWER7 can roll back counter values, if the new value is smaller
+	 * than the previous value it will cause the delta and the counter to
+	 * have bogus values unless we rolled a counter over.  If a coutner is
+	 * rolled back, it will be smaller, but within 256, which is the maximum
+	 * number of events to rollback at once.  If we dectect a rollback
+	 * return 0.  This can lead to a small lack of precision in the
+	 * counters.
+	 */
+	if (prev > val && (prev - val) < 256)
+		delta = 0;
+
+	return delta;
+}
+
 static void power_pmu_read(struct perf_event *event)
 {
 	s64 val, delta, prev;
@@ -416,10 +435,11 @@ static void power_pmu_read(struct perf_event *event)
 		prev = local64_read(&event->hw.prev_count);
 		barrier();
 		val = read_pmc(event->hw.idx);
+		delta = check_and_compute_delta(prev, val);
+		if (!delta)
+			return;
 	} while (local64_cmpxchg(&event->hw.prev_count, prev, val) != prev);
 
-	/* The counters are only 32 bits wide */
-	delta = (val - prev) & 0xfffffffful;
 	local64_add(delta, &event->count);
 	local64_sub(delta, &event->hw.period_left);
 }
@@ -449,8 +469,9 @@ static void freeze_limited_counters(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw,
 		val = (event->hw.idx == 5) ? pmc5 : pmc6;
 		prev = local64_read(&event->hw.prev_count);
 		event->hw.idx = 0;
-		delta = (val - prev) & 0xfffffffful;
-		local64_add(delta, &event->count);
+		delta = check_and_compute_delta(prev, val);
+		if (delta)
+			local64_add(delta, &event->count);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -458,14 +479,16 @@ static void thaw_limited_counters(struct cpu_hw_events *cpuhw,
 				  unsigned long pmc5, unsigned long pmc6)
 {
 	struct perf_event *event;
-	u64 val;
+	u64 val, prev;
 	int i;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < cpuhw->n_limited; ++i) {
 		event = cpuhw->limited_counter[i];
 		event->hw.idx = cpuhw->limited_hwidx[i];
 		val = (event->hw.idx == 5) ? pmc5 : pmc6;
-		local64_set(&event->hw.prev_count, val);
+		prev = local64_read(&event->hw.prev_count);
+		if (check_and_compute_delta(prev, val))
+			local64_set(&event->hw.prev_count, val);
 		perf_event_update_userpage(event);
 	}
 }
@@ -759,7 +782,7 @@ static int power_pmu_add(struct perf_event *event, int ef_flags)
 
 	/*
 	 * If group events scheduling transaction was started,
-	 * skip the schedulability test here, it will be peformed
+	 * skip the schedulability test here, it will be performed
 	 * at commit time(->commit_txn) as a whole
 	 */
 	if (cpuhw->group_flag & PERF_EVENT_TXN)
@@ -1197,7 +1220,7 @@ static void record_and_restart(struct perf_event *event, unsigned long val,
 
 	/* we don't have to worry about interrupts here */
 	prev = local64_read(&event->hw.prev_count);
-	delta = (val - prev) & 0xfffffffful;
+	delta = check_and_compute_delta(prev, val);
 	local64_add(delta, &event->count);
 
 	/*