[PATCH] powerpc: Partial revert of "Context switch more PMU related SPRs"

[PATCH] powerpc: Partial revert of "Context switch more PMU related SPRs"

[Michael Ellerman]

In commit 59affcd I added context switching of more PMU SPRs, because
they are potentially exposed to userspace on Power8. However despite me
being a smart arse in the commit message it's actually not correct. In
particular it interacts badly with a global perf record.

We will have to do something more complicated, but that will have to
wait for 3.11.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S |   28 ----------------------------
 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
index 246b11c..8741c85 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S
@@ -465,20 +465,6 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	std	r0, THREAD_EBBHR(r3)
 	mfspr	r0, SPRN_EBBRR
 	std	r0, THREAD_EBBRR(r3)
-
-	/* PMU registers made user read/(write) by EBB */
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_SIAR
-	std	r0, THREAD_SIAR(r3)
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_SDAR
-	std	r0, THREAD_SDAR(r3)
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_SIER
-	std	r0, THREAD_SIER(r3)
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_MMCR0
-	std	r0, THREAD_MMCR0(r3)
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_MMCR2
-	std	r0, THREAD_MMCR2(r3)
-	mfspr	r0, SPRN_MMCRA
-	std	r0, THREAD_MMCRA(r3)
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
 #endif
 
@@ -581,20 +567,6 @@ BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
 	ld	r0, THREAD_EBBRR(r4)
 	mtspr	SPRN_EBBRR, r0
 
-	/* PMU registers made user read/(write) by EBB */
-	ld	r0, THREAD_SIAR(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_SIAR, r0
-	ld	r0, THREAD_SDAR(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_SDAR, r0
-	ld	r0, THREAD_SIER(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_SIER, r0
-	ld	r0, THREAD_MMCR0(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_MMCR0, r0
-	ld	r0, THREAD_MMCR2(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_MMCR2, r0
-	ld	r0, THREAD_MMCRA(r4)
-	mtspr	SPRN_MMCRA, r0
-
 	ld	r0,THREAD_TAR(r4)
 	mtspr	SPRN_TAR,r0
 END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S)
-- 
1.7.10.4

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Partial revert of "Context switch more PMU related SPRs"

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 06/06/2013 09:33 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> In commit 59affcd I added context switching of more PMU SPRs, because
> they are potentially exposed to userspace on Power8. However despite me
> being a smart arse in the commit message it's actually not correct. In
> particular it interacts badly with a global perf record.

Could you please explain how it would interact badly with a global perf record.
If any user space try to mess around with the MMCR* registers itself, it would
definitely interfere with the kernel's own PMU config going on during perf record.
But thats how it works. So when we are actually dealing with MMCR* registers
directly, we should not invoke "perf record" session which can potential run on
the same PMU.

Regards
Anshuman