powerpc: Provide a way to defer perf counter work until interrupts are enabled

Because 64-bit powerpc uses lazy (soft) interrupt disabling, it is
possible for a performance monitor exception to come in when the
kernel thinks interrupts are disabled (i.e. when they are
soft-disabled but hard-enabled).  In such a situation the performance
monitor exception handler might have some processing to do (such as
process wakeups) which can't be done in what is effectively an NMI
handler.

This provides a way to defer that work until interrupts get enabled,
either in raw_local_irq_restore() or by returning from an interrupt
handler to code that had interrupts enabled.  We have a per-processor
flag that indicates that there is work pending to do when interrupts
subsequently get re-enabled.  This flag is checked in the interrupt
return path and in raw_local_irq_restore(), and if it is set,
perf_counter_do_pending() is called to do the pending work.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
index f75a5fc64d2..e10f151c3db 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h
@@ -131,5 +131,36 @@ static inline int irqs_disabled_flags(unsigned long flags)
  */
 struct hw_interrupt_type;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
+static inline unsigned long get_perf_counter_pending(void)
+{
+	unsigned long x;
+
+	asm volatile("lbz %0,%1(13)"
+		: "=r" (x)
+		: "i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, perf_counter_pending)));
+	return x;
+}
+
+static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(int x)
+{
+	asm volatile("stb %0,%1(13)" : :
+		"r" (x),
+		"i" (offsetof(struct paca_struct, perf_counter_pending)));
+}
+
+extern void perf_counter_do_pending(void);
+
+#else
+
+static inline unsigned long get_perf_counter_pending(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void set_perf_counter_pending(int x) {}
+static inline void perf_counter_do_pending(void) {}
+#endif /* CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS */
+
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif	/* _ASM_POWERPC_HW_IRQ_H */