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oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization 

Adding a comment in the code as IBS LVT setup is not obvious at all ...

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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Robert Richter 2011-05-30 16:31:11 +02:00
parent b76a06e08d
commit cbf74cea07
2 changed files with 11 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
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@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static unsigned int reserve_eilvt_offset(int offset, unsigned int new)
/*
* If mask=1, the LVT entry does not generate interrupts while mask=0
* enables the vector. See also the BKDGs.
* enables the vector. See also the BKDGs. Must be called with
* preemption disabled.
*/
int setup_APIC_eilvt(u8 offset, u8 vector, u8 msg_type, u8 mask)

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arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
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@ -609,16 +609,21 @@ static int setup_ibs_ctl(int ibs_eilvt_off)
return 0;
}
/*
* This runs only on the current cpu. We try to find an LVT offset and
* setup the local APIC. For this we must disable preemption. On
* success we initialize all nodes with this offset. This updates then
* the offset in the IBS_CTL per-node msr. The per-core APIC setup of
* the IBS interrupt vector is called from op_amd_setup_ctrs()/op_-
* amd_cpu_shutdown() using the new offset.
*/
static int force_ibs_eilvt_setup(void)
{
int offset;
int ret;
/*
* find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0,
* pin search to this cpu
*/
preempt_disable();
/* find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0 */
for (offset = 1; offset < APIC_EILVT_NR_MAX; offset++) {
if (get_eilvt(offset))
break;