OMAP4: IRQ line of CortexA9 performance monitor

[Santosh Shilimkar]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-omap-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Måns Rullgård
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:49 PM
> To: linux-omap at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: OMAP4: IRQ line of CortexA9 performance monitor
>
> Ming Lei <tom.leiming at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > From chapter 17 of "Interrupt controller", OMAP4 TRM, I can't
> > find what is the interrupt line of CortexA9 performance monitor
> > in omap4. Seems without this information, we can't use perf on
> > omap4.
> >
> > Any suggestions or ideas about it?
>
> The PMU interrupt is routed through the CTI, which needs to be
> properly
> configured.  Unfortunately, the CTI is not documented in the public
> TRM,
> and nobody has seen fit to submit a patch suitable for upstream.
> Some dirty hacks have been posted, though.
>
Mans is right. Last time I looked at this, the OMAP4 PMU support
needed some hacky code and was not fitting to the generic PMU
framework.

I will take a second look at it and see if a patch can be generated
for upstream.

Regards,
Santosh