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Commit cb307113 authored by Michael Ellerman's avatar Michael Ellerman Committed by Ingo Molnar
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perf_event: Don't allow vmalloc() backed perf on powerpc



On powerpc the perf event interrupt is not masked when interrupts are
disabled, allowing it to function as an NMI.

This causes problems if perf is using vmalloc. If we take a page fault
on the vmalloc region the fault handler will fail the page fault because
it detects we are coming in from an NMI (see do_hash_page()).

We don't actually need or want vmalloc backed perf so just disable it on
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Cc: sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430720799-18426-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent ff303e66
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@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
	default n
	bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
	depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
	select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
	help
	 Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.