perf_counter: theres more to overflow than writing events

Prepare for more generic overflow handling. The new perf_counter_overflow()
method will handle the generic bits of the counter overflow, and can return
a !0 return value, in which case the counter should be (soft) disabled, so
that it won't count until it's properly disabled.

XXX: do powerpc and swcounter

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.812109629@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
index 438415866fe4..1116a41bc7b5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
@@ -800,7 +800,8 @@ again:
                         continue;
 
                 perf_save_and_restart(counter);
-                perf_counter_output(counter, nmi, regs);
+                if (perf_counter_overflow(counter, nmi, regs))
+                        __pmc_generic_disable(counter, &counter->hw, bit);
         }
 
         hw_perf_ack_status(ack);