[PATCH v4 6/9] arm64: perf: Do not call irq_work_run in NMI context

[Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>]

Function irq_work_run is not NMI safe and should not be called from NMI
context.

When PMU interrupt is an NMI do not call irq_work_run. Instead rely on the
IRQ work IPI to run the irq_work queue once NMI/IRQ contexts have been
exited.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 14 +++++---------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index 0e2cf5d..9c959ad 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -776,20 +776,16 @@ static irqreturn_t armv8pmu_handle_irq(struct arm_pmu *cpu_pmu)
 		if (!armpmu_event_set_period(event))
 			continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * Perf event overflow will queue the processing of the event as
+		 * an irq_work which will be taken care of in the handling of
+		 * IPI_IRQ_WORK.
+		 */
 		if (perf_event_overflow(event, &data, regs))
 			cpu_pmu->disable(event);
 	}
 	armv8pmu_start(cpu_pmu);
 
-	/*
-	 * Handle the pending perf events.
-	 *
-	 * Note: this call *must* be run with interrupts disabled. For
-	 * platforms that can have the PMU interrupts raised as an NMI, this
-	 * will not work.
-	 */
-	irq_work_run();
-
 	return IRQ_HANDLED;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1


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