[PATCH v2 15/17] arm64: Remove custom IRQ stat accounting

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2020-06-25 19:26, Valentin Schneider wrote:
> On 24/06/20 20:58, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> @@ -801,26 +802,15 @@ void show_ipi_list(struct seq_file *p, int prec)
>>       unsigned int cpu, i;
>> 
>>       for (i = 0; i < NR_IPI; i++) {
>> +		unsigned int irq = irq_desc_get_irq(ipi_desc[i]);
>>               seq_printf(p, "%*s%u:%s", prec - 1, "IPI", i,
>>                          prec >= 4 ? " " : "");
>>               for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
>> -			seq_printf(p, "%10u ",
>> -				   __get_irq_stat(cpu, ipi_irqs[i]));
>> +			seq_printf(p, "%10u ", kstat_irqs_cpu(irq, cpu));
>>               seq_printf(p, "      %s\n", ipi_types[i]);
> 
> How attached are we to that custom IPI printout? AIUI we *could* give 
> them
> a "prettier" name in request_percpu_irq() and let the standard procfs
> printout take the wheel.

I wish. Unfortunately, /proc/interrupts is likely to be considered ABI,
and I'm really worried to change this (see what happened last time we
tried to update /proc/cpuinfo to be less braindead...).

         M.
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