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perf: Stop all counters on reboot
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Use the reboot notifier to detach all running counters on reboot, this
solves a problem with kexec where the new kernel doesn't expect
running counters (rightly so).

It will however decrease the coverage of the NMI watchdog. Making a
kexec specific reboot notifier callback would be best, however that
would require touching all notifier callback handlers as they are not
properly structured to deal with new state.

As a compromise, place the perf reboot notifier at the very last
position in the list.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored and Ingo Molnar committed Dec 8, 2010
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24 changes: 23 additions & 1 deletion kernel/perf_event.c
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#include <linux/dcache.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/vmstat.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
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mutex_unlock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
#if defined CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU || defined CONFIG_KEXEC
static void perf_pmu_rotate_stop(struct pmu *pmu)
{
struct perf_cpu_context *cpuctx = this_cpu_ptr(pmu->pmu_cpu_context);
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static inline void perf_event_exit_cpu(int cpu) { }
#endif

static int
perf_reboot(struct notifier_block *notifier, unsigned long val, void *v)
{
int cpu;

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
perf_event_exit_cpu(cpu);

return NOTIFY_OK;
}

/*
* Run the perf reboot notifier at the very last possible moment so that
* the generic watchdog code runs as long as possible.
*/
static struct notifier_block perf_reboot_notifier = {
.notifier_call = perf_reboot,
.priority = INT_MIN,
};

static int __cpuinit
perf_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
{
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perf_pmu_register(&perf_task_clock);
perf_tp_register();
perf_cpu_notifier(perf_cpu_notify);
register_reboot_notifier(&perf_reboot_notifier);

ret = init_hw_breakpoint();
WARN(ret, "hw_breakpoint initialization failed with: %d", ret);
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