[PATCH 0/7] Armada 375/38x perf support, and a bonus irqchip driver simplification

Jason Cooper jason at lakedaemon.net
Sun Nov 9 14:50:04 PST 2014


On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:18:10AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On 11/09/2014 06:41 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Jason, Ezequiel,
> > 
> > On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 00:23:48 -0500, Jason Cooper wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:43:40AM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> >>> This patchset enables support for perf hardware events, by enabling the PMU
> >>> interrupts in the irqchip driver.
> >>>
> >>> While doing this, we noticed the driver could use some cleaning to simplify
> >>> the overly complex implementation of the .map(), .unmask() and .mask()
> >>> functions.
> >>>
> >>> The first three patches are the result of this cleaning effort, while the
> >>> rest of the series is the Perf support for Armada 375 and Armada 38x SoCs.
> >>>
> >>> The series is based on v3.18-rc1.
> >>>
> >>> Ezequiel Garcia (7):
> >>>   irqchip: armada-370-xp: Simplify interrupt map, mask and unmask
> >>>   irqchip: armada-370-xp: Initialize per cpu registers when CONFIG_SMP=N
> >>>   irqchip: armada-370-xp: Introduce a is_percpu_irq() helper for
> >>>     readability
> >>>   irqchip: armada-370-xp: Enable Performance Counter interrupts
> >>
> >> Patches 1 to 4 tentatively applied to irqchip/mvebu.  Things have been
> >> quiet, so let's get it in next for some more test coverage.
> > 
> 
> Jason, please consider *only* patch 1 for inclusion, as long as we
> have Gregory's Ack on it. I don't want to break the irqchip driver
> because of a clean-up! On the other side, if such weird handling
> is needed, we need find why and document it.

No sweat.  I've now rolled irqchip/mvebu back to:

  aaae00a7fa86 irqchip: armada-370-xp: Simplify interrupt map, mask and unmask

and an updated for-next is being build-tested and pushed hopefully
before Stephen gets his cup of coffee.  :)

thx,

Jason.



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