[PATCHv2 9/9] arm: perf: fold hotplug notifier into arm_pmu
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Oct 28 07:46:34 PDT 2014
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:37:24PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 10/27/2014 05:06 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Handling multiple PMUs using a single hotplug notifier requires a list
> > of PMUs to be maintained, with synchronisation in the probe, remove, and
> > notify paths. This is error-prone and makes the code much harder to
> > maintain.
> >
> > Instead of using a single notifier, we can dynamically allocate a
> > notifier block per-PMU. The end result is the same, but the list of PMUs
> > is implicit in the hotplug notifier list rather than within a perf-local
> > data structure, which makes the code far easier to handle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
>
> One nit below.
>
> > @@ -169,6 +192,11 @@ static int cpu_pmu_init(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
> > if (!cpu_hw_events)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > + cpu_pmu->hotplug_nb.notifier_call = cpu_pmu_notify;
> > + err = register_cpu_notifier(&cpu_pmu->hotplug_nb);
> > + if (err)
> > + goto out_hw_events;
> > +
> > for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> > struct pmu_hw_events *events = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_hw_events, cpu);
> > raw_spin_lock_init(&events->pmu_lock);
> > @@ -188,38 +216,19 @@ static int cpu_pmu_init(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
> > cpu_pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT;
> >
> > return 0;
> > +
> > +out_hw_events:
> > + free_percpu(cpu_hw_events);
> > + return err;
> > }
> >
> > static void cpu_pmu_destroy(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
> > {
> > free_percpu(cpu_pmu->hw_events);
> > + unregister_cpu_notifier(&cpu_pmu->hotplug_nb);
> > }
> >
>
> I would expect the order to be the other way, but it probably doesn't
> matter all that much on the registration error path.
I've flipped this around locally, I agree it's nicer the other way
around.
Thanks for the review, it's much appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark.
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