Re: [PATCH] perfcounters: abstract wakeup flag setting in core to fix powerpc build

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> Impact: build fix for powerpc
> 
> Commit bd753921015e7905 ("perf_counter: software counter event
> infrastructure") introduced a use of TIF_PERF_COUNTERS into the core
> perfcounter code.  This breaks the build on powerpc because we use
> a flag in a per-cpu area to signal wakeups on powerpc rather than
> a thread_info flag, because the thread_info flags have to be
> manipulated with atomic operations and are thus slower than per-cpu
> flags.
> 
> This fixes the by changing the core to use an abstracted
> set_perf_counter_pending() function, which is defined on x86 to set
> the TIF_PERF_COUNTERS flag and on powerpc to set the per-cpu flag
> (paca->perf_counter_pending).  It changes the previous powerpc
> definition of set_perf_counter_pending to not take an argument and
> adds a clear_perf_counter_pending, so as to simplify the definition
> on x86.
> 
> On x86, set_perf_counter_pending() is defined as a macro.  Defining
> it as a static inline in arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counters.h causes
> compile failures because <asm/perf_counters.h> gets included early in
> <linux/sched.h>, and the definitions of set_tsk_thread_flag etc. are
> therefore not available in <asm/perf_counters.h>.  (On powerpc this
> problem is avoided by defining set_perf_counter_pending etc. in
> <asm/hw_irq.h>.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> ---
> This is in the master branch of my perfcounters.git repository at:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/perfcounters.git master
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h   |   14 +++++++++++---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c           |   11 +++--------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c  |    3 +--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h |    3 +++
>  kernel/perf_counter.c               |    2 +-
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks Paul!

	Ingo