[PATCH] drivers/perf: arm-pmu: Fix handling of SPI lacking "interrupt-affinity" property

[will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for reporting this.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:11:55PM -0500, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> > Patch 19a469a58720 ("drivers/perf: arm-pmu: Handle per-interrupt
> > affinity mask") added support for partitionned PPI setups, but
> > inadvertently broke setups using SPIs without the "interrupt-affinity"
> > property (which is the case for UP platforms).
> >
> > This patch restore the broken functionnality by testing whether the
> > interrupt is percpu or not instead of relying on the using_spi flag
> > that really means "SPI *and* interrupt-affinity property".
> >
> > Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Fixes: 19a469a58720 ("drivers/perf: arm-pmu: Handle per-interrupt affinity mask")
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> 
> kernelci.org detected boot failures on bcm2835-rpi-b in mainline[1]
> and was bisected down to this patch.  I verified that reverting this
> patch on top of mainline gets bcm2835-rpi-b booting again.
> 
> I haven't been closely tracking this change, but a quick glance and it
> looks like this platform is possibly missing IRQ properties from its
> PMU node?  The DT for this platform simply has:
> 
>         arm-pmu {
>             compatible = "arm,arm1176-pmu";
>         };


Stefan Wahren posted a fix for this, so I've queued it locally and plan
to send via Catalin:

  http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-August/452475.html

Will