Some of the PMUs may share the interrupt. Support them by
setting IRQF_SHARED
Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com>
---
drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
index 88547a2b73e6..cc5204d1b5fb 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
@@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ static int arm_cspmu_request_irq(struct arm_cspmu *cspmu)
return irq;
ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, arm_cspmu_handle_irq,
- IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD, dev_name(dev),
- cspmu);
+ IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD | IRQF_SHARED,
+ dev_name(dev), cspmu);
if (ret) {
dev_err(dev, "Could not request IRQ %d\n", irq);
return ret;
--
2.40.1
On 2023-06-01 04:01, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
> Some of the PMUs may share the interrupt. Support them by
> setting IRQF_SHARED
This has the usual problem of allowing any PMU instance to move the IRQ
affinity to a different CPU without also migrating all the other PMU
contexts, and thus breaking perf core's assumptions of mutual exclusion.
Thanks,
Robin.
> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com>
> ---
> drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> index 88547a2b73e6..cc5204d1b5fb 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
> @@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ static int arm_cspmu_request_irq(struct arm_cspmu *cspmu)
> return irq;
>
> ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, arm_cspmu_handle_irq,
> - IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD, dev_name(dev),
> - cspmu);
> + IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD | IRQF_SHARED,
> + dev_name(dev), cspmu);
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(dev, "Could not request IRQ %d\n", irq);
> return ret;
Hi Robin,
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 2023-06-01 04:01, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
>> Some of the PMUs may share the interrupt. Support them by
>> setting IRQF_SHARED
>
> This has the usual problem of allowing any PMU instance to move the IRQ
> affinity to a different CPU without also migrating all the other PMU
> contexts, and thus breaking perf core's assumptions of mutual exclusion.
I see, I wasn't aware of such an assumption. Sounds like there isn't
necessarily an easy and clean solution for the shared interrupt case. I
drop the patch and get back on the issue if we come up with something
reasonable later.
Cheers, Ilkka
>
> Thanks,
> Robin.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
>> b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
>> index 88547a2b73e6..cc5204d1b5fb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
>> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
>> @@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ static int arm_cspmu_request_irq(struct arm_cspmu
>> *cspmu)
>> return irq;
>> ret = devm_request_irq(dev, irq, arm_cspmu_handle_irq,
>> - IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD,
>> dev_name(dev),
>> - cspmu);
>> + IRQF_NOBALANCING | IRQF_NO_THREAD |
>> IRQF_SHARED,
>> + dev_name(dev), cspmu);
>> if (ret) {
>> dev_err(dev, "Could not request IRQ %d\n", irq);
>> return ret;
>
On 2023-06-02 08:04, Ilkka Koskinen wrote: > > Hi Robin, > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, Robin Murphy wrote: >> On 2023-06-01 04:01, Ilkka Koskinen wrote: >>> Some of the PMUs may share the interrupt. Support them by >>> setting IRQF_SHARED >> >> This has the usual problem of allowing any PMU instance to move the >> IRQ affinity to a different CPU without also migrating all the other >> PMU contexts, and thus breaking perf core's assumptions of mutual >> exclusion. > > I see, I wasn't aware of such an assumption. Sounds like there isn't > necessarily an easy and clean solution for the shared interrupt case. I > drop the patch and get back on the issue if we come up with something > reasonable later. What comes to mind is factoring out the explicit interrupt-sharing machinery that we wrote to solve this problem in arm_dmc620_pmu, or possibly trying to do something with IRQ affinity notifiers (however, I recall looking into that a while ago and it didn't seem like they actually interact with CPU hotplug in the way we'd want). Thanks, Robin.
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