perf_counter: powerpc: Implement interrupt throttling
This implements interrupt throttling on powerpc. Since we don't have individual count enable/disable or interrupt enable/disable controls per counter, this simply sets the hardware counter to 0, meaning that it will not interrupt again until it has counted 2^31 counts, which will take at least 2^30 cycles assuming a maximum of 2 counts per cycle. Also, we set counter->hw.period_left to the maximum possible value (2^63 - 1), so we won't report overflows for this counter for the forseeable future. The unthrottle operation restores counter->hw.period_left and the hardware counter so that we will once again report a counter overflow after counter->hw.irq_period counts. [ Impact: new perfcounters robustness feature on PowerPC ] 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: <18971.35823.643362.446774@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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