powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use per-cpu page buffer
The 24x7 counters are continuously running and not updated on an interrupt. So we record the event counts when stopping the event or deleting it. But to "read" a single counter in 24x7, we allocate a page and pass it into the hypervisor (The HV returns the page full of counters from which we extract the specific counter for this event). We allocate a page using GFP_USER and when deleting the event, we end up with the following warning because we are blocking in interrupt context. [ 698.641709] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0/0x10010000 We could use GFP_ATOMIC but that could result in failures. Pre-allocate a buffer so we don't have to allocate in interrupt context. Further as Michael Ellerman suggested, use Per-CPU buffer so we only need to allocate once per CPU. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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