Re: [PATCH] drivers/perf: arm-pmu: Handle per-interrupt affinity mask

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Jul 06 2016 - 10:11:26 EST


On 06/07/16 11:39, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 02:21:31PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On a big-little system, PMUs can be wired to CPUs using per CPU
>> interrups (PPI). In this case, it is important to make sure that
>> the enable/disable do happen on the right set of CPUs.
>>
>> So instead of relying on the interrupt-affinity property, we can
>> use the actual percpu affinity that DT exposes as part of the
>> interrupt specifier. The DT binding is also updated to reflect
>> the fact that the interrupt-affinity property shouldn't be used
>> in that case.
>
> [...]
>
>> - /* If we didn't manage to parse anything, claim to support all CPUs */
>> - if (cpumask_weight(&pmu->supported_cpus) == 0)
>> - cpumask_setall(&pmu->supported_cpus);
>> + /* If we didn't manage to parse anything, try the interrupt affinity */
>> + if (cpumask_weight(&pmu->supported_cpus) == 0) {
>> + if (!using_spi) {
>> + /* If using PPIs, check the affinity of the partition */
>> + int irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
>> + irq_get_percpu_devid_partition(irq,
>> + &pmu->supported_cpus);
>
> Should we not at least propagate the failure if this returns -EINVAL?

Good point. I'll fix that and resend it.

Thanks,

M.
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