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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] arm64: Enable perf events based hard lockup detector
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 12:56:37PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:
> With the recent feature added to enable perf events to use pseudo NMIs
> as interrupts on platforms which support GICv3 or later, its now been
> possible to enable hard lockup detector (or NMI watchdog) on arm64
> platforms. So enable corresponding support.
>
> One thing to note here is that normally lockup detector is initialized
> just after the early initcalls but PMU on arm64 comes up much later as
> device_initcall(). So we need to re-initialize lockup detection once
> PMU has been initialized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Rebased to latest pmu NMI patch-set [1].
> - Addressed misc. comments from Stephen.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/19/671
>
> Changes since RFC:
> - Rebased on top of Alex's WIP-pmu-nmi branch.
> - Add comment for safe max. CPU frequency.
> - Misc. cleanup.
>
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 ++
> arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 9 +++++++++
> include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

It would be great to have Alexandru's ack on this, since it builds directly
on top of his code.

Will

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