powerpc/perf: Invoke per-CPU variable access with disabled interrupts
The power_pmu_event_init() callback access per-cpu variable (cpu_hw_events) to check for event constraints and Branch Stack (BHRB). Current usage is to disable preemption when accessing the per-cpu variable, but this does not prevent timer callback from interrupting event_init. Fix this by using 'local_irq_save/restore' to make sure the code path is invoked with disabled interrupts. This change is tested in mambo simulator to ensure that, if a timer interrupt comes in during the per-cpu access in event_init, it will be soft masked and replayed later. For testing purpose, introduced a udelay() in power_pmu_event_init() to make sure a timer interrupt arrives while in per-cpu variable access code between local_irq_save/resore. As expected the timer interrupt was replayed later during local_irq_restore called from power_pmu_event_init. This was confirmed by adding breakpoint in mambo and checking the backtrace when timer_interrupt was hit. Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1606814880-1720-1-git-send-email-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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