Re: [PATCH] arm/perf: Fix pmu percpu irq handling at hotplug.

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:48:00AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 01:24:38PM -0700, Yabin Cui wrote:
> > >    If the cpu pmu is using a percpu irq:                                    
> > >          
> > >    1. When a cpu is down, we should disable pmu irq on                      
> > >    that cpu. Otherwise, if the cpu is still down when                        
> > >    the last perf event is released, the pmu irq can't                        
> > >    be freed. Because the irq is still enabled on the                        
> > >    offlined cpu. And following perf_event_open()                            
> > >    syscalls will fail.                                                      
> > >
> > >    2. When a cpu is up, we should enable pmu irq on                          
> > >    that cpu. Otherwise, profiling tools can't sample                        
> > >    events on the cpu before all perf events are                              
> > >    released, because pmu irq is disabled on that cpu.                        

[...]

> > Rather than adding more moving parts to the IRQ manipulation logic, I'd
> > rather we rework the IRQ manipulation logic to:
> > 
> > * At probe time, request all the interrupts. If we can't, bail out and
> >   fail the probe.
> > 
> > * Upon hotplug in (and at probe time), configure the affinity and
> >   enable the relevant interrupt(s).
> > 
> > * Upon hotplug out, disable the relevant interrupt.

> > I'm taking a look at doing the above, but I don't yet have a patch.
> 
> Any update on this? I'd quite like to do *something* to fix the issues
> reported here.

Apologies for the delay.

I've been away from my development hardware for the last week, so I
ahven't fought with this for a few days.

Given it's requiring that I practically rewrite of_pmu_irq_cfg and
friends, it may be better to take Yabin's patch for the timebeing if you
want a quick fix for this particular issue.

Thanks,
Mark.