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    perf_counter: Fix lockup with interrupting counters · 6dc5f2a4
    Paul Mackerras authored
    Commit 8e3747c1
    
     ("perf_counter: Change data head from u32 to u64")
    changed the type of 'head' in struct perf_mmap_data from atomic_t
    to atomic_long_t, but missed converting one use of atomic_read on
    it to atomic_long_read.  The effect of using atomic_read rather than
    atomic_long_read on powerpc (and other big-endian architectures) is
    that we get the high half of the 64-bit quantity, resulting in the
    cmpxchg retry loop in perf_output_begin spinning forever as soon as
    data->head becomes non-zero.  On little-endian architectures such as
    x86 we would get the low half, resulting in a lockup once data->head
    becomes greater than 4G.
    
    This fixes it by using atomic_long_read rather than atomic_read.
    
    [ Impact: fix perfcounter lockup on PowerPC / big-endian systems ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <18984.33964.21541.743096@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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