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[PATCH] perf_event: Don't allow vmalloc backed perf on powerpc

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2015-05-04 06:27:09
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

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: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---
 init/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec60232..81050e4d9941 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -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.
-- 
2.1.0
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