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From: will.deacon@arm•com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:57:32 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801ca9f7a$338d5f90$9aa81eb0$@deacon@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001271840.47714.jpihet@mvista.com>

Hi Jean,

Jean Pihet wrote:

> > However, if the IRQs are
> > defined, but for some reason we fail to request them, then the
> > armpmu_reserve_hardware function will fail.
> That is the expected behaviour, isn't it?
> Why is the PMU request failing? That is worth investigating. I never had that
> problem on the Cortex-A8. Is it caused because of the multicore?

Don't worry, requesting the IRQs did not fail. I was simply speculating about
the behaviour if it *does* fail. Then armpmu_reserve_hardware will return an
error, which will prevent the event being added. Instead, we could print a
warning, but continue without IRQs in the same manner as though they had not
been defined in pmu.c.
 
> > Actually, the return
> > value appears to be uninitialised if you don't have any IRQs defined.
> If the PMU request fails the IRQ should not be requested, so I think it is ok.
> Is that correct?

What I mean is, if pmu_irqs->num_irqs < 1, then we return err without ever
setting it. In fact, we might even end up freeing IRQs which we haven't
requested which could cause all sorts of problems.

> >
> > Anyway, apart from that, it appeared to work fine.
> Good!
> 
> Thanks for testing!
> Jean
> 
> > Tested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>

That's alright, but it's conditional on sorting out the above! :)

Cheers,

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-14 12:14 ARM perf events support v5 Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14   ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14     ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14       ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2010-01-14 12:14         ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2010-01-21  9:39           ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 10:28             ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 10:37               ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 10:38             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-21 10:56               ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:21               ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-21 12:27                 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 12:32                   ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-21 14:04                     ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21 12:34                 ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:42                   ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-22 15:25                     ` Will Deacon
2010-01-21 12:45                   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-26 16:03                 ` Tomasz Fujak
2010-01-26 16:09                   ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-26 16:11                     ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-26 17:47                       ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-27 17:26                         ` Will Deacon
2010-01-27 17:40                           ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-27 17:57                             ` Will Deacon [this message]
2010-01-28 11:26                               ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-30 16:15                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 17:14                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 17:28                                   ` Jamie Iles
2010-02-02 17:40         ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 18:19           ` Will Deacon
2010-02-02 18:48           ` Jamie Iles
2010-02-02 19:07             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-02-02 19:28               ` Jamie Iles
2010-02-05  6:01     ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting George G. Davis
2010-02-05  9:13       ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-21  9:30   ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-04 10:48 ARM perf events support v4 Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48   ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48     ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48       ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 10:48         ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2010-01-04 11:17           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-04 11:46             ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-05 18:07           ` Will Deacon
2010-01-05 18:23             ` Jean Pihet
2010-01-05 22:26             ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-05 22:31               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-06  0:18                 ` Jamie Iles
2010-01-06 12:09                   ` Will Deacon
2010-01-06 12:14                     ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ARMv6 performance counters v3 Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15   ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15     ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15       ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 11:15         ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 14:29           ` Will Deacon
2009-12-15 15:02             ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 15:05               ` Will Deacon
2009-12-15 15:19                 ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-15 15:30                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-15 15:36                     ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-16 10:54                       ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-16 11:04                         ` Will Deacon
2009-12-16 11:19                           ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ARMv6 performance counters v2 Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04 ` [PATCH 1/5] arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04   ` [PATCH 2/5] arm/oprofile: reserve the PMU when starting Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04     ` [PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04       ` [PATCH 4/5] arm: enable support for software perf events Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 14:04         ` [PATCH 5/5] arm/perfevents: implement perf event support for ARMv6 Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:12           ` Jean Pihet
2009-12-14 16:33             ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:57               ` Jean Pihet
2009-12-14 17:09             ` Will Deacon
2009-12-14 16:13           ` Will Deacon
2009-12-14 16:20             ` Jamie Iles
2009-12-14 16:24               ` Will Deacon

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