Re: [PATCH v4 10/11] drivers: perf: hisi: Handle counter overflow IRQ in MN PMU
From: Mark Rutland
Date: Tue Feb 21 2017 - 07:03:55 EST
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:19:58PM +0530, Anurup M wrote:
> On Monday 20 February 2017 04:59 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Anurup M wrote:
> >>+ /* Clear the IRQ status flag */
> >>+ hisi_djtag_writereg(module_id, MN1_BANK_SELECT,
> >>+ MN1_INTC_REG_OFF, (1 << bit_pos), client);
> >>+
> >>+ /* Get the corresponding event struct */
> >>+ event = mn_pmu->hw_perf_events[bit_pos];
> >>+ if (!event)
> >>+ continue;
> >Do we expect to take interrupts for an event which does not exist?
>
> Here I ignore if the event does not exist. I have seen it is handled
> in arm_pmu and other reference
> implementations to ignore if there is no event.
> The event is cleared in .del. So if .del is called before the IRQ
> handler, this check is required right?
> Please comment.
If there's a particular case whre we'd see the overflow bit set for an
event, please add a comment describing that case here.
[...]
> >>+static int hisi_mn_init_irqs_fdt(struct device *dev,
> >>+ struct hisi_pmu *mn_pmu)
> >>+{
> >>+ struct hisi_mn_data *mn_data = mn_pmu->hwmod_data;
> >>+ struct hisi_djtag_client *client = mn_data->client;
> >>+ int irq = -1, num_irqs, i;
> >>+
> >>+ num_irqs = of_irq_count(dev->of_node);
> >Surely we expect a specific number of interrupts?
> >
> >>+ for (i = 0; i < num_irqs; i++) {
> >>+ irq = of_irq_get(dev->of_node, i);
> >>+ if (irq < 0)
> >>+ dev_info(dev, "No IRQ resource!\n");
> >>+ }
> >Why are we throwing these away?
> >
> >>+
> >>+ if (irq < 0)
> >>+ return 0;
> >>+
> >>+ /* The last entry in the IRQ list to be chosen
> >>+ * This is as per mbigen-v2 IRQ mapping
> >>+ */
> >>+ return hisi_mn_init_irq(irq, mn_pmu, client);
> >I don't understand this comment.
> >
> >Why do we only use the list IRQ?
> >
> >What does this have to do with the mbigen?
> >
> >No ordering requirement was described in the DT binding.
>
> There is a defect in the mbigen hardware to handle the IRQ mapping
> for MN.
> Due to this the IRQ property
> of MN is made as a list and we read all IRQs and use only the last one.
> I shall mention it in the comment and also add note in the DT bindings.
You'll need to elaborate on that a bit further; I don't understand.
If the interrupts aren't usable, there's arguably not much point listing
them in the DT.
Regardless, the order of the list *must* be specified in the DT binding.
Thanks,
Mark.