[PATCH v7 3/7] arm64: perf: Remove PMU locking

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Thu Sep 24 07:07:02 EDT 2020


From: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com>

The PMU is disabled and enabled, and the counters are programmed from
contexts where interrupts or preemption is disabled.

The functions to toggle the PMU and to program the PMU counters access the
registers directly and don't access data modified by the interrupt handler.
That, and the fact that they're always called from non-preemptible
contexts, means that we don't need to disable interrupts or use a spinlock.

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com>
Tested-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org> (Developerbox)
[Alexandru E.: Explained why locking is not needed, removed WARN_ONs]
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 28 ----------------------------
 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index cb0b85bebc41..610500166f90 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -682,15 +682,10 @@ static inline u32 armv8pmu_getreset_flags(void)
 
 static void armv8pmu_enable_event(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
-	struct pmu_hw_events *events = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_pmu->hw_events);
-
 	/*
 	 * Enable counter and interrupt, and set the counter to count
 	 * the event that we're interested in.
 	 */
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * Disable counter
@@ -711,21 +706,10 @@ static void armv8pmu_enable_event(struct perf_event *event)
 	 * Enable counter
 	 */
 	armv8pmu_enable_event_counter(event);
-
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void armv8pmu_disable_event(struct perf_event *event)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu = to_arm_pmu(event->pmu);
-	struct pmu_hw_events *events = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_pmu->hw_events);
-
-	/*
-	 * Disable counter and interrupt
-	 */
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
-
 	/*
 	 * Disable counter
 	 */
@@ -735,30 +719,18 @@ static void armv8pmu_disable_event(struct perf_event *event)
 	 * Disable interrupt for this counter
 	 */
 	armv8pmu_disable_event_irq(event);
-
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void armv8pmu_start(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct pmu_hw_events *events = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_pmu->hw_events);
-
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 	/* Enable all counters */
 	armv8pmu_pmcr_write(armv8pmu_pmcr_read() | ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_E);
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void armv8pmu_stop(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	struct pmu_hw_events *events = this_cpu_ptr(cpu_pmu->hw_events);
-
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 	/* Disable all counters */
 	armv8pmu_pmcr_write(armv8pmu_pmcr_read() & ~ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_E);
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&events->pmu_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t armv8pmu_handle_irq(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
-- 
2.28.0




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