[PATCH v11 7/7] arm: pmu: Add PMU definitions for cores not initially online

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Dec 6 07:21:18 PST 2016


On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 12:56:01PM -0600, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> ACPI CPUs aren't associated with a PMU until they have been put
> online. This means that we potentially have to update a PMU
> definition the first time a CPU is hot added to the machine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c       | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> index fa40294..4abb2fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> @@ -711,6 +711,30 @@ static int cpu_pmu_request_irq(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu, irq_handler_t handler)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(arm_pmu_resource_lock);

Why do you need this spinlock? The hotplug notifiers are serialised afaik,
and you don't take it anywhere else.

Will



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