[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ARCv2: intc: Fix random perf irq disabling in SMP setup" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jan 15 23:56:31 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ARCv2: intc: Fix random perf irq disabling in SMP setup

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 749f09fb7217b21c0f46c133ba10e6b55032095b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:54:03 +0530
Subject: ARCv2: intc: Fix random perf irq disabling in SMP setup

commit 8eb0984bf4fe82237f95481ff0afe514a676c717 upstream.

As part of fixing another perf issue, observed that after a perf run,
the interrupt got disabled on one/more cores.

Turns out that despite requesting perf irq as percpu, the flow handler
registered was not handle_percpu_irq()

Given that on ARCv2 cores, IRQs < 24 are always private to cpu, we
register the right handler at the very onset.

Before Fix

| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20:    0      0      0       0  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters
|
| [ARCLinux]# perf record -c 20000 /sbin/hackbench
| Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks.
|
| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20:    0    522      8    51916  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters
|
| [ARCLinux]# perf record -c 20000 /sbin/hackbench
| Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks.
|
| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20:    0    522      8   104368  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters

After Fix

| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20:    0      0      0       0  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters
|
| [ARCLinux]# perf record -c 20000 /sbin/hackbench
| Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks.
|
| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20:  64198  62012  62697  67803  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters
|
| [ARCLinux]# perf record -c 20000 /sbin/hackbench
| Running with 10*40 (== 400) tasks.
|
| [ARCLinux]# cat /proc/interrupts | grep perf
|  20: 126014 122792 123301 133654  ARCv2 core Intc  20 ARC perf counters

Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c b/arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c
index 26c1568..0394f9f 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/intc-arcv2.c
@@ -106,10 +106,21 @@ static struct irq_chip arcv2_irq_chip = {
 static int arcv2_irq_map(struct irq_domain *d, unsigned int irq,
 			 irq_hw_number_t hw)
 {
-	if (irq == TIMER0_IRQ || irq == IPI_IRQ)
+	/*
+	 * core intc IRQs [16, 23]:
+	 * Statically assigned always private-per-core (Timers, WDT, IPI, PCT)
+	 */
+	if (hw < 24) {
+		/*
+		 * A subsequent request_percpu_irq() fails if percpu_devid is
+		 * not set. That in turns sets NOAUTOEN, meaning each core needs
+		 * to call enable_percpu_irq()
+		 */
+		irq_set_percpu_devid(irq);
 		irq_set_chip_and_handler(irq, &arcv2_irq_chip, handle_percpu_irq);
-	else
+	} else {
 		irq_set_chip_and_handler(irq, &arcv2_irq_chip, handle_level_irq);
+	}

 	return 0;
 }
--
1.9.1





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