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| author | Paul Mackerras | 2009-01-09 16:52:19 +1100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras | 2009-01-09 19:48:17 +1100 |
| commit | 93a6d3ce6962044fe9badf528fed46b455d58292 (patch) | |
| tree | e3941058ddb4117b4598b8d94fb218cfeb9e2fa8 /arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | |
| parent | d662ed26734473d4cb5f3d78cebfec8f9126e97c (diff) | |
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 <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
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 */ |