powerpc/perf: power_pmu_start restores incorrect values, breaking frequency events
perf on POWER stopped working after commit e050e3f0 (perf: Fix broken interrupt rate throttling). That patch exposed a bug in the POWER perf_events code. Since the PMCs count upwards and take an exception when the top bit is set, we want to write 0x80000000 - left in power_pmu_start. We were instead programming in left which effectively disables the counter until we eventually hit 0x80000000. This could take seconds or longer. With the patch applied I get the expected number of samples: SAMPLE events: 9948 Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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