[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 02:34:23 AEDT 2023


When the PMU is disabled, MMCRA is not updated to disable BHRB and
instruction sampling. This can lead to those features remaining enabled,
which can slow down a real or emulated CPU.

Fixes: 1cade527f6e9 ("powerpc/perf: BHRB control to disable BHRB logic when not used")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
index 8c1f7def596e..10b946e9c6e7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
@@ -1371,8 +1371,7 @@ static void power_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu)
 		/*
 		 * Disable instruction sampling if it was enabled
 		 */
-		if (cpuhw->mmcr.mmcra & MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE)
-			val &= ~MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE;
+		val &= ~MMCRA_SAMPLE_ENABLE;
 
 		/* Disable BHRB via mmcra (BHRBRD) for p10 */
 		if (ppmu->flags & PPMU_ARCH_31)
@@ -1383,7 +1382,7 @@ static void power_pmu_disable(struct pmu *pmu)
 		 * instruction sampling or BHRB.
 		 */
 		if (val != mmcra) {
-			mtspr(SPRN_MMCRA, mmcra);
+			mtspr(SPRN_MMCRA, val);
 			mb();
 			isync();
 		}
-- 
2.42.0



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