Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling.
  sparc64: Fix NMI programming when perf events are active.
  bbc_envctrl: Clean up properly if kthread_run() fails.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
index fa5936e1c3b9..198fb4e79ba2 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -986,6 +986,17 @@ static int __kprobes perf_event_nmi_handler(struct notifier_block *self,
         data.addr = 0;
 
         cpuc = &__get_cpu_var(cpu_hw_events);
+
+        /* If the PMU has the TOE IRQ enable bits, we need to do a
+         * dummy write to the %pcr to clear the overflow bits and thus
+         * the interrupt.
+         *
+         * Do this before we peek at the counters to determine
+         * overflow so we don't lose any events.
+         */
+        if (sparc_pmu->irq_bit)
+                pcr_ops->write(cpuc->pcr);
+
         for (idx = 0; idx < MAX_HWEVENTS; idx++) {
                 struct perf_event *event = cpuc->events[idx];
                 struct hw_perf_event *hwc;