Re: [PATCH -rt] use SA_NODELAY for XScale PMU interrupts

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Sep 08 2006 - 17:25:16 EST


On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 12:22 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> In the XScale oprofile support, the performance monitoring unit (PMU)
> triggers interrupts and the ISR reads out the performance data. These
> ISRs are currently set to SA_INTERRUPT. In order to get accurate
> performance and profiling data under PREEMPT_RT, these should use
> SA_NODELAY. The functions called by this ISR are limited to
> drivers/oprofile functions.
>
> Patch against 2.6.18-rt8


hmm I thought the SA_ flags were deprecated ???


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