Re: [PATCH v2] perf: arm_spe: Support heterogeneous ACPI systems

From: Jeremy Linton

Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 18:38:35 EST


Hi,

This largely looks reasonable, some comments inline.

On 10/20/26 9:03 PM, Johnny.Fan wrote:
From: "Johnny.Fan" <Johnny.Fan@xxxxxxxxxxx>

On heterogeneous ACPI systems, not all CPUs implement SPE, and the
ones that do may use different PPIs. The MADT describes this per
GICC entry: a CPU without SPE reports a zero SPE overflow interrupt,
and the PPTT hetero id identifies CPUs of the same implementation.

The current code registers a single platform device and gives up if
the GICC entries disagree on either the hetero id or the interrupt,
so SPE is unavailable on such systems even though the firmware
describes it.

Group the CPUs by (hetero id, SPE interrupt) and register one
platform device per group. A GSI may be shared between groups with
non-overlapping CPU masks, so only unregister the GSI mapping when
no other group uses the same interrupt, as the mapping is not
reference counted.

These synthetic devices have no fwnode, so the firmware-described
IRQ affinity cannot tell which CPUs implement the feature. Pass the
CPU mask as platform data and have the drivers prefer it over the
IRQ affinity when present.

Apply the same treatment to TRBE, which shares this registration
code. TRBE must also pass a stable copy of the mask to
request_percpu_irq_affinity(), since supported_cpus is pruned as
CPUs are probed.

Tested on a CIX sky1 SoC with heterogeneous SPE support.

Signed-off-by: Johnny.Fan <Johnny.Fan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c | 22 +-
drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c | 211 ++++++++++++-------

It makes sense to split the device creation portion in arm_pmu_acpi.c into its own patch separate from the consumption IMHO.

drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 10 +-
include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 10 +
4 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
index c7cbca45f2de..0c4bc8fbcaf3 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-trbe.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct trbe_drvdata {
struct hlist_node hotplug_node;
int irq;
cpumask_t supported_cpus;
+ cpumask_t irq_affinity;
enum cpuhp_state trbe_online;
struct platform_device *pdev;
};
@@ -1533,6 +1534,8 @@ static void arm_trbe_remove_cpuhp(struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata)
static int arm_trbe_probe_irq(struct platform_device *pdev,
struct trbe_drvdata *drvdata)
{
+ const struct arm_pmu_acpi_dev_data *acpi_data =
+ dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
const struct cpumask *affinity;
int ret;
@@ -1547,14 +1550,27 @@ static int arm_trbe_probe_irq(struct platform_device *pdev,
return -EINVAL;
}
- cpumask_copy(&drvdata->supported_cpus, affinity);
+ /*
+ * The ACPI path has no fwnode describing which CPUs implement TRBE,
+ * so it passes the mask explicitly. DT devices still use the
+ * firmware-described IRQ affinity.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(&drvdata->supported_cpus,
+ acpi_data ? &acpi_data->cpus : affinity);
+
+ /*
+ * supported_cpus gets pruned as CPUs are probed, so keep a stable
+ * copy for the IRQ action.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(&drvdata->irq_affinity, &drvdata->supported_cpus);
drvdata->handle = alloc_percpu(struct perf_output_handle *);
if (!drvdata->handle)
return -ENOMEM;
- ret = request_percpu_irq_affinity(drvdata->irq, arm_trbe_irq_handler, DRVNAME,
- affinity, drvdata->handle);
+ ret = request_percpu_irq_affinity(drvdata->irq, arm_trbe_irq_handler,
+ DRVNAME, &drvdata->irq_affinity,
+ drvdata->handle);
if (ret) {
free_percpu(drvdata->handle);
return ret;
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c
index ca6bf8f86cfe..fdf39673648f 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
#include <linux/irqdesc.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/perf/arm_pmu.h>
+#include <linux/platform_device.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/cpu.h>
#include <asm/cputype.h>
@@ -68,91 +70,165 @@ static void arm_pmu_acpi_unregister_irq(int cpu)
acpi_unregister_gsi(gsi);
}
-static int __maybe_unused
-arm_acpi_register_pmu_device(struct platform_device *pdev, u8 len,
- u16 (*parse_gsi)(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *))
+struct arm_pmu_acpi_group {
+ int hetid;
+ u16 gsi;
+ struct cpumask cpus;
+};
+
+static int arm_acpi_find_group(struct arm_pmu_acpi_group *groups, int nr_groups,
+ int hetid, u16 gsi)
{
- int cpu, this_hetid, hetid, irq, ret;
- u16 this_gsi = 0, gsi = 0;
+ int i;
- /*
- * Ensure that platform device must have IORESOURCE_IRQ
- * resource to hold gsi interrupt.
- */
- if (pdev->num_resources != 1)
- return -ENXIO;
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_groups; i++) {
+ if (groups[i].hetid == hetid && groups[i].gsi == gsi)
+ return i;
+ }
+
+ return -1;
+}
+
+static bool arm_acpi_gsi_is_shared(struct arm_pmu_acpi_group *groups,
+ int nr_groups, int idx)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_groups; i++) {
+ if (i != idx && groups[i].gsi == groups[idx].gsi)
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+static int arm_acpi_register_group(struct arm_pmu_acpi_group *group,
+ const char *name, bool gsi_shared)
+{
+ struct arm_pmu_acpi_dev_data data = { };
+ struct platform_device *pdev;
+ struct resource res;
+ int irq, ret;
+
+ irq = acpi_register_gsi(NULL, group->gsi, ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE,
+ ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH);
+ if (irq < 0)
+ return irq;
+
+ pdev = platform_device_alloc(name, PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO);
+ if (!pdev) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_unreg;
+ }
- if (pdev->resource[0].flags != IORESOURCE_IRQ)
- return -ENXIO;
+ res = DEFINE_RES_IRQ(irq);
+ data.cpus = group->cpus;
+ ret = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &res, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_put;
+
+ ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &data, sizeof(data));
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_put;
+
+ ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
+ if (!ret)
+ return 0;
+
+err_put:
+ platform_device_put(pdev);
+err_unreg:
/*
- * Sanity check all the GICC tables for the same interrupt
- * number. For now, only support homogeneous ACPI machines.
+ * The GSI mapping is not reference counted, so only drop it if no
+ * other group shares it.
*/
+ if (!gsi_shared)
+ acpi_unregister_gsi(group->gsi);

This is a bit odd, if whatever fails, and gets here happens on all the paths associated with the shared GSI, then that GSI is never unregistered and the resource is leaked.

+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static int __maybe_unused
+arm_acpi_register_pmu_devices(const char *name, u8 len,
+ u16 (*parse_gsi)(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *))
+{
+ struct arm_pmu_acpi_group *groups;
+ int cpu, i, nr_cpus = 0, nr_groups = 0, nr_devices = 0;
+ int last_err = 0, ret;
+
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc;
gicc = acpi_cpu_get_madt_gicc(cpu);
if (gicc->header.length < len)
- return gsi ? -ENXIO : 0;
-
- this_gsi = parse_gsi(gicc);
- this_hetid = find_acpi_cpu_topology_hetero_id(cpu);
- if (!gsi) {
- hetid = this_hetid;
- gsi = this_gsi;
- } else if (hetid != this_hetid || gsi != this_gsi) {
- pr_warn("ACPI: %s: must be homogeneous\n", pdev->name);
- return -ENXIO;
- }
+ continue;

This continue seems like a mistake, if the firmware has provided unreliable tables we should abort all device creation, even if that means some subset of the SPE devices which appear to be correct aren't created.


+ if (parse_gsi(gicc))
+ nr_cpus++;
}
- if (!this_gsi)
+ if (!nr_cpus)
return 0;
- irq = acpi_register_gsi(NULL, gsi, ACPI_LEVEL_SENSITIVE, ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH);
- if (irq < 0) {
- pr_warn("ACPI: %s Unable to register interrupt: %d\n", pdev->name, gsi);
- return -ENXIO;
- }
+ groups = kcalloc(nr_cpus, sizeof(*groups), GFP_KERNEL);

And this seemed a bit chunky because in theory this could be NR_CPUS, which made me initially say, skip counting the cores and just allocate the max, then I realized its close to having kcalloc() failures if there are a lot of cores in the machine since this allocation becomes multiple MB. I think we are creating a future headache and need something smarter than counting the number of cores with valid SPE/TRBE interrupts.


+ if (!groups)
+ return -ENOMEM;
- pdev->resource[0].start = irq;
- ret = platform_device_register(pdev);
- if (ret)
- acpi_unregister_gsi(gsi);
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
+ struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc;
+ int hetid;
+ u16 gsi;
- return ret;
-}
+ gicc = acpi_cpu_get_madt_gicc(cpu);
+ if (gicc->header.length < len)
+ continue;
same continue issue here as above>
-#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU)
-static struct resource spe_resources[] = {
- {
- /* irq */
- .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ,
+ gsi = parse_gsi(gicc);
+ if (!gsi)
+ continue;
+
+ hetid = find_acpi_cpu_topology_hetero_id(cpu);

If groups were say a linked list (or something else dynamic) you could just use the failure case here to allocate the next entry and simply skip the first loop iteration above counting cpus.

+ i = arm_acpi_find_group(groups, nr_groups, hetid, gsi);
+ if (i < 0) {
+ i = nr_groups++;
+ groups[i].hetid = hetid;
+ groups[i].gsi = gsi;
+ }
+
+ cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &groups[i].cpus);
}
-};
-static struct platform_device spe_dev = {
- .name = ARMV8_SPE_PDEV_NAME,
- .id = -1,
- .resource = spe_resources,
- .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(spe_resources)
-};
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_groups; i++) {
+ ret = arm_acpi_register_group(&groups[i], name,
+ arm_acpi_gsi_is_shared(groups,
+ nr_groups, i));
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_warn("ACPI: %s: %*pbl: add device failed (%d)\n",
+ name, cpumask_pr_args(&groups[i].cpus), ret);
+ last_err = ret;
+ } else {
+ nr_devices++;
+ }
+ }
+
+ kfree(groups);
+
+ return nr_devices ? 0 : last_err;
+}
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU)
static u16 arm_spe_parse_gsi(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc)
{
return gicc->spe_interrupt;
}
-/*
- * For lack of a better place, hook the normal PMU MADT walk
- * and create a SPE device if we detect a recent MADT with
- * a homogeneous PPI mapping.
- */
static void arm_spe_acpi_register_device(void)
{
- int ret = arm_acpi_register_pmu_device(&spe_dev, ACPI_MADT_GICC_SPE,
- arm_spe_parse_gsi);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = arm_acpi_register_pmu_devices(ARMV8_SPE_PDEV_NAME,
+ ACPI_MADT_GICC_SPE,
+ arm_spe_parse_gsi);
if (ret)
pr_warn("ACPI: SPE: Unable to register device\n");
}
@@ -163,20 +239,6 @@ static inline void arm_spe_acpi_register_device(void)
#endif /* CONFIG_ARM_SPE_PMU */
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CORESIGHT_TRBE)
-static struct resource trbe_resources[] = {
- {
- /* irq */
- .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ,
- }
-};
-
-static struct platform_device trbe_dev = {
- .name = ARMV8_TRBE_PDEV_NAME,
- .id = -1,
- .resource = trbe_resources,
- .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(trbe_resources)
-};
-
static u16 arm_trbe_parse_gsi(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc)
{
return gicc->trbe_interrupt;
@@ -184,8 +246,11 @@ static u16 arm_trbe_parse_gsi(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *gicc)
static void arm_trbe_acpi_register_device(void)
{
- int ret = arm_acpi_register_pmu_device(&trbe_dev, ACPI_MADT_GICC_TRBE,
- arm_trbe_parse_gsi);
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = arm_acpi_register_pmu_devices(ARMV8_TRBE_PDEV_NAME,
+ ACPI_MADT_GICC_TRBE,
+ arm_trbe_parse_gsi);
if (ret)
pr_warn("ACPI: TRBE: Unable to register device\n");
}
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
index b70f3fedf028..712b7f187301 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
@@ -1330,6 +1330,8 @@ static void arm_spe_pmu_dev_teardown(struct arm_spe_pmu *spe_pmu)
static int arm_spe_pmu_irq_probe(struct arm_spe_pmu *spe_pmu)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = spe_pmu->pdev;
+ const struct arm_pmu_acpi_dev_data *acpi_data =
+ dev_get_platdata(&pdev->dev);
const struct cpumask *affinity;
int irq;
@@ -1342,7 +1344,13 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_irq_probe(struct arm_spe_pmu *spe_pmu)
return -EINVAL;
}
- cpumask_copy(&spe_pmu->supported_cpus, affinity);
+ /*
+ * The ACPI path has no fwnode describing which CPUs implement SPE,
+ * so it passes the mask explicitly. DT devices still use the
+ * firmware-described IRQ affinity.
+ */
+ cpumask_copy(&spe_pmu->supported_cpus,
+ acpi_data ? &acpi_data->cpus : affinity);
spe_pmu->irq = irq;
return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
index 02d2c7f45b52..7f1c03c55025 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#ifndef __ARM_PMU_H__
#define __ARM_PMU_H__
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
@@ -199,6 +200,15 @@ void armpmu_free_irq(struct arm_pmu * __percpu *armpmu, int irq, int cpu);
#define ARMV8_SPE_PDEV_NAME "arm,spe-v1"
#define ARMV8_TRBE_PDEV_NAME "arm,trbe"
+/*
+ * Per-device CPU mask passed by the ACPI MADT walk. The synthetic
+ * platform devices have no fwnode, so the IRQ affinity cannot describe
+ * which CPUs actually implement the feature.
+ */
+struct arm_pmu_acpi_dev_data {
+ struct cpumask cpus;
+};
+
/* Why does everything I do descend into this? */
#define __GEN_PMU_FORMAT_ATTR(cfg, lo, hi) \
(lo) == (hi) ? #cfg ":" #lo "\n" : #cfg ":" #lo "-" #hi

Thanks for working on this.

Jeremy