From 93a6d3ce6962044fe9badf528fed46b455d58292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:52:19 +1100 Subject: powerpc: Provide a way to defer perf counter work until interrupts are enabled Because 64-bit powerpc uses lazy (soft) interrupt disabling, it is possible for a performance monitor exception to come in when the kernel thinks interrupts are disabled (i.e. when they are soft-disabled but hard-enabled). In such a situation the performance monitor exception handler might have some processing to do (such as process wakeups) which can't be done in what is effectively an NMI handler. This provides a way to defer that work until interrupts get enabled, either in raw_local_irq_restore() or by returning from an interrupt handler to code that had interrupts enabled. We have a per-processor flag that indicates that there is work pending to do when interrupts subsequently get re-enabled. This flag is checked in the interrupt return path and in raw_local_irq_restore(), and if it is set, perf_counter_do_pending() is called to do the pending work. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h index 082b3aedf145..6ef055723019 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h @@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ struct paca_struct { u8 soft_enabled; /* irq soft-enable flag */ u8 hard_enabled; /* set if irqs are enabled in MSR */ u8 io_sync; /* writel() needs spin_unlock sync */ + u8 perf_counter_pending; /* PM interrupt while soft-disabled */ /* Stuff for accurate time accounting */ u64 user_time; /* accumulated usermode TB ticks */ -- cgit v1.2.2