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 <m...@ellerman.id.au>
---
init/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec60232..81050e4d9941 100644
--- 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.
--
2.1.0
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