Paul Mackerras e758a33d6f perf_counter: call hw_perf_save_disable/restore around group_sched_in
I noticed that when enabling a group via the PERF_COUNTER_IOC_ENABLE
ioctl on the group leader, the counters weren't enabled and counting
immediately on return from the ioctl, but did start counting a little
while later (presumably after a context switch).

The reason was that __perf_counter_enable calls group_sched_in which
calls hw_perf_group_sched_in, which on powerpc assumes that the caller
has called hw_perf_save_disable already.  Until commit 46d686c6
("perf_counter: put whole group on when enabling group leader") it was
true that all callers of group_sched_in had called
hw_perf_save_disable first, and the powerpc hw_perf_group_sched_in
relies on that (there isn't an x86 version).

This fixes the problem by putting calls to hw_perf_save_disable /
hw_perf_restore around the calls to group_sched_in and
counter_sched_in in __perf_counter_enable.  Having the calls to
hw_perf_save_disable/restore around the counter_sched_in call is
harmless and makes this call consistent with the other call sites
of counter_sched_in, which have all called hw_perf_save_disable first.

[ Impact: more precise counter group disable/enable functionality ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <18953.25733.53359.147452@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-12 15:31:06 +02:00
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