Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] perf: xgene: Add support for SoC PMU version 3

[Hoan Tran]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Hoan Tran wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:02:26AM -0700, Hoan Tran wrote:
>> > >  static inline void
>> > > +xgene_pmu_write_counter64(struct xgene_pmu_dev *pmu_dev, int idx, u64 val)
>> > > +{
>> > > +     u32 cnt_lo, cnt_hi;
>> > > +
>> > > +     cnt_hi = upper_32_bits(val);
>> > > +     cnt_lo = lower_32_bits(val);
>> > > +
>> > > +     /* v3 has 64-bit counter registers composed by 2 32-bit registers */
>> > > +     xgene_pmu_write_counter32(pmu_dev, 2 * idx, cnt_lo);
>> > > +     xgene_pmu_write_counter32(pmu_dev, 2 * idx + 1, cnt_hi);
>> > > +}
>> >
>> > For this to be atomic, we need to disable the counters for the duration
>> > of the IRQ handler, which we don't do today.
>> >
>> > Regardless, we should do that to ensure that groups are self-consistent.
>> >
>> > i.e. in xgene_pmu_isr() we should call ops->stop_counters() just after
>> > taking the pmu lock, and we should call ops->start_counters() just
>> > before releasing it.
>>
>> Thanks for your comments. I'll fix them and send another version of
>> patch set soon.
>
> No need; I'm picking these up now, and I'll apply the fixups locally.

Thanks!

Hoan

>
> Thanks,
> Mark.