percpu irq APIs and perf

[Vineet Gupta]

On Friday 11 December 2015 11:28 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>> But auto-enabling cannot be done from a single CPU. It can only be done
>>> >> from the core that is going to be delivered that interrupt. This
>>> >> requires access to registers that are simply not available to other CPUs.
>> > 
>> > I'm not talking about eliminating enable_percpu_irq() call from all cores and
>> > still getting the auto-enable semantics. What I mean is doing the equivalent of
>> > 
>> >      irq_set_status_flags(irq, IRQ_NOAUTOEN);
>> > 
>> > from within request_percpu_irq_xxx() based on an additional arg (vs. doing it
>> > aprioiri outside).
>> > 
>> > OTOH, thinking a bit more abt this, I think the current semantics of auto-disable
>> > w/o any arg is just fine. Most percpu irqs in general purpose drivers would want
>> > the auto-disable anyways. Only for core irws such as timer / IPI etc do we want
>> > auto-enable.
> So assuming we can do this (forgetting about any form of HW limitation):
> CPU0 request the per-CPU IRQ with an AUTOEN flag. What happens on CPU1?
> Are you expecting it to immediately be able to take interrupts? What
> handler data gets passed to it?

Right - autoen=true will only help on CPU0. Others will still need to call enable
- for register tinkling etc. A true autoen API should have done that across the
board which it clearly can't and hence is pointless.

Thx,
-Vineet