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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] ARM: perf_event: Support percpu irqs for the CPU PMU
On 01/10, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:17:29PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
> > We can avoid the hacky cast of the per-cpu dev token by using the
> > cpu_pmu pointer directly, but we'll still need to pass something to the
> > percpu interrupt handler otherwise the genirq layer doesn't allow us to
> > request the PPI. I can pass hw_events I guess. Is that what you're
> > thinking? Or were you thinking that we could just use
> > cpu_pmu->handle_irq as the handler argument in request_percpu_irq()? I
> > can't figure out how that is supposed to work.
>
> Actually, I was thinking you could remove cpu_pmu_dispatch_irq completely
> and just pass the actual handler straight through to request_percpu_irq. On
> arm64 we pass the hw_events as the pcpu token, so I'd be inclined to do the
> same here unless there's a good reason not to.
>

Passing the hw_events as the pcpu token here is kind of hacky.
The reason is because the token is dereferenced into cpu_pmu in
armv7pmu_handle_irq() like so:

struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu = (struct arm_pmu *)dev;

It would be great if we could pass cpu_pmu directly to the
request call like so:

request_percpu_irq(irq, cpu_pmu->handle_irq, "arm-pmu", &cpu_pmu);

but no. request_percpu_irq() wants a percpu pointer so this won't
work. If cpu_pmu was declared as DEFINE_PER_CPU, this would work
out just fine.

Should the cpu_pmu become a per-cpu variable? That sounds rather
invasive.

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