[PATCH 4/4] perf/arm_cspmu: Make IRQ more optional

Robin Murphy robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Jul 9 07:39:56 PDT 2026


If we have 64-bit counters, we can reasonably assume we'll never have to
handle an overflow before the end of the universe (since we're a system
PMU with no sampling). Thus even if firmware does specify an IRQ, we can
still continue in the event of being unable to request it. This can help
systems where IRQs cannot be claimed exclusively, or are broken in other
ways.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
---
 drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
index 0b26a1588eba..4ba47bccc99c 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_cspmu/arm_cspmu.c
@@ -1257,8 +1257,11 @@ static int arm_cspmu_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return ret;
 
 	ret = arm_cspmu_request_irq(cspmu);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	if (ret) {
+		if (counter_size(cspmu) < 64)
+			return ret;
+		dev_info(cspmu->dev, "Continuing without IRQ\n");
+	}
 
 	ret = arm_cspmu_get_cpus(cspmu);
 	if (ret)
-- 
2.54.0.dirty




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