perf_event: Don't allow vmalloc() backed perf on powerpc

On powerpc the perf event interrupt is not masked when interrupts are
disabled, allowing it to function as an NMI.

This causes problems if perf is using vmalloc. If we take a page fault
on the vmalloc region the fault handler will fail the page fault because
it detects we are coming in from an NMI (see do_hash_page()).

We don't actually need or want vmalloc backed perf so just disable it on
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec6023292ac6f1bd484ce506074d3e53566..81050e4d9941254c258586a69138f44a8662269c 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ config PERF_EVENTS
 config DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
        default n
        bool "Debug: use vmalloc to back perf mmap() buffers"
-       depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL
+       depends on PERF_EVENTS && DEBUG_KERNEL && !PPC
        select PERF_USE_VMALLOC
        help
         Use vmalloc memory to back perf mmap() buffers.