From: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
This avoids some problems with spurious PMIs on Haswell.
Haswell seems to behave more like P4 in this regard. Do
the same thing as the P4 perf handler by unmasking
the NMI only at the end. Shouldn't make any difference
for earlier non P4 cores.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c | 15 +++++----------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
index 9b4dda5..6899f57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel.c
@@ -1133,16 +1133,6 @@ static int intel_pmu_handle_irq(struct pt_regs *regs)
cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
- /*
- * Some chipsets need to unmask the LVTPC in a particular spot
- * inside the nmi handler. As a result, the unmasking was pushed
- * into all the nmi handlers.
- *
- * This handler doesn't seem to have any issues with the unmasking
- * so it was left at the top.
- */
- apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI);
-
intel_pmu_disable_all();
handled = intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer();
status = intel_pmu_get_status();
@@ -1211,6 +1201,11 @@ again:
done:
intel_pmu_enable_all(0);
+ /*
+ * Only unmask the NMI after the overflow counters
+ * have been reset.
+ */
+ apic_write(APIC_LVTPC, APIC_DM_NMI);
return handled;
}
--
1.7.7.6
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