From: pawel.moll@arm.com (Pawel Moll)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] arm-ccn: ensure perf synchronisation
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:39:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1467639584.22236.1.camel@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467136218-15789-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com>
Dnia 2016-06-28, Tue o godzinie 18:50 +0100, Mark Rutland pisze:
> Currently the IRQ core is permitted to make the CCN PMU IRQ handler
> threaded, and will allow userspace to change the CPU affinity of the
> interrupt behind our back. Both of these could violate our
> synchronisation requirements with the core perf code, which relies upon
> strict CPU affinity and disabling of interrupts to guarantee mutual
> exclusion in some cases.
>
> As with the CPU PMU drivers, we should request the interrupt with
> IRQF_NOBALANCING and IRQF_NO_THREAD, to avoid these issues.
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
In principle, because still had no chance to test it...
Thanks!
Pawel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-04 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-28 17:50 [PATCH 0/2] arm-cc*: ensure perf synchronisation Mark Rutland
2016-06-28 17:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] arm-ccn: " Mark Rutland
2016-07-04 13:39 ` Pawel Moll [this message]
2016-07-04 13:50 ` Mark Rutland
2016-06-28 17:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm-cci: " Mark Rutland
2016-07-04 10:22 ` Will Deacon
2016-07-04 10:31 ` Mark Rutland
2016-07-04 10:44 ` Mark Rutland
2016-07-04 11:16 ` Punit Agrawal
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