[PATCH 15/15] ARM: perf: handle muxed CPU IRQ lines

[Will Deacon]

Hi Lee,

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 01:56:51PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> When registering a PMU device, a platform can either use the generic
> IRQ handler, or supplement it with one of its own. One of the reasons
> a platform might choose to do this is to handle the case of muxed IRQ
> lines. If this is the case and the IRQ is handled on the wrong CPU,
> this patch sets affinity with the next successive online CPU.
> 
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
> index d3c5360..04a8867 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
> @@ -1069,8 +1069,18 @@ static irqreturn_t armv7pmu_handle_irq(int irq_num, void *dev)
>  	/*
>  	 * Did an overflow occur?
>  	 */
> -	if (!armv7_pmnc_has_overflowed(pmnc))
> +	if (armv7_pmnc_has_overflowed(pmnc)) {

Did you mean to change this predicate?

> +		unsigned int next_cpu;
> +
> +		next_cpu = cpumask_next(smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_mask);
> +
> +		if (next_cpu >= nr_cpumask_bits)
> +			next_cpu = cpumask_first(cpu_online_mask);
> +
> +		irq_set_affinity(irq_num, cpumask_of(next_cpu));
> +

Shouldn't this be in the platform IRQ handler, rather than the core v7 perf
code?

Will