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Deng-Cheng Zhu 91f017372a MIPS, Perf-events: Work with irq_work
This is the MIPS part of the following commit by Peter Zijlstra:

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    irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks

    Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
    most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
    system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

    Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
    a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
    benefit.

    The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
    possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
    built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

    Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
    callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
    irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
    work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
    processing the work.

For MIPSXX, we need to call irq_work_run() at the tail of the perf IRQ
handler as described above.

Reported-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: fweisbec@gmail.com
To: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com,
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2011/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2011-03-14 21:07:26 +01:00
Deng-Cheng Zhu 14f7001284 MIPS: add support for hardware performance events (skeleton)
This patch provides the skeleton of the HW perf event support. To enable
this feature, we can not choose the SMTC kernel; Oprofile should be
disabled; kernel performance events be selected. Then we can enable it in
Kernel type menu.

Oprofile for MIPS platforms initializes irq at arch init time. Currently
we do not change this logic to allow PMU reservation.

If a platform has EIC, we can use the irq base and perf counter irq offset
defines for the interrupt controller in specific init_hw_perf_events().

Based on this skeleton patch, the 3 different kinds of MIPS PMU, namely,
mipsxx/loongson2/rm9000, can be supported by adding corresponding lower
level C files at the bottom. The suggested names of these files are
perf_event_mipsxx.c/perf_event_loongson2.c/perf_event_rm9000.c. So, for
example, we can do this by adding "#include perf_event_mipsxx.c" at the
bottom of perf_event.c.

In addition, PMUs with 64bit counters are also considered in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jamie.iles@picochip.com
Cc: ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1688/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-29 19:08:48 +01:00