Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/perf: arm-pmu: Handle per-interrupt affinity mask

From: Rob Herring
Date: Mon Jul 11 2016 - 10:37:31 EST


On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 03:33:47PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On a big-little system, PMUs can be wired to CPUs using per CPU
> interrups (PPI). In this case, it is important to make sure that
> the enable/disable do happen on the right set of CPUs.
>
> So instead of relying on the interrupt-affinity property, we can
> use the actual percpu affinity that DT exposes as part of the
> interrupt specifier. The DT binding is also updated to reflect
> the fact that the interrupt-affinity property shouldn't be used
> in that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> * From v1:
> - propagate the error if irq_get_percpu_devid_partition fails
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt | 4 +++-

I acked v1, please add acks.

Rob

> drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)