perf_event: Don't allow vmalloc() backed perf on powerpc
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 <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430720799-18426-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.auSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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