Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] perf: arm_cspmu: Support shared interrupts

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 2023-06-02 08:04, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
> 
> Hi Robin,
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2023, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> On 2023-06-01 04:01, Ilkka Koskinen wrote:
>>> Some of the PMUs may share the interrupt. Support them by
>>> setting IRQF_SHARED
>>
>> This has the usual problem of allowing any PMU instance to move the 
>> IRQ affinity to a different CPU without also migrating all the other 
>> PMU contexts, and thus breaking perf core's assumptions of mutual 
>> exclusion.
> 
> I see, I wasn't aware of such an assumption. Sounds like there isn't 
> necessarily an easy and clean solution for the shared interrupt case. I 
> drop the patch and get back on the issue if we come up with something 
> reasonable later.

What comes to mind is factoring out the explicit interrupt-sharing 
machinery that we wrote to solve this problem in arm_dmc620_pmu, or 
possibly trying to do something with IRQ affinity notifiers (however, I 
recall looking into that a while ago and it didn't seem like they 
actually interact with CPU hotplug in the way we'd want).

Thanks,
Robin.