[PATCHv2 01/16] drivers/perf: arm_pmu: remove pointless PMU disabling

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Thu Apr 6 14:29:08 EDT 2017


We currently disable the PMU temporarily in armpmu_add(). We may have
required this historically, but the perf core always disables an event's
PMU when calling event::pmu::add(), so this is not necessary.

We don't do similarly in armpmu_del(), or elsewhere, so this is
unnecessary and inconsistent, and only serves to confuse the reader.

Remove the pointless disable, simplifying armpmu_add() in the process.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Tested-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
index a1dfe89..316c4dc 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
@@ -235,20 +235,15 @@ static void armpmu_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	struct pmu_hw_events *hw_events = this_cpu_ptr(armpmu->hw_events);
 	struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
 	int idx;
-	int err = 0;
 
 	/* An event following a process won't be stopped earlier */
 	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), &armpmu->supported_cpus))
 		return -ENOENT;
 
-	perf_pmu_disable(event->pmu);
-
 	/* If we don't have a space for the counter then finish early. */
 	idx = armpmu->get_event_idx(hw_events, event);
-	if (idx < 0) {
-		err = idx;
-		goto out;
-	}
+	if (idx < 0)
+		return idx;
 
 	/*
 	 * If there is an event in the counter we are going to use then make
@@ -265,9 +260,7 @@ static void armpmu_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	/* Propagate our changes to the userspace mapping. */
 	perf_event_update_userpage(event);
 
-out:
-	perf_pmu_enable(event->pmu);
-	return err;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int
-- 
1.9.1




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