From cbf74cea070fa1f705de4712e25d9e56ae6543c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Richter Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 16:31:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization Adding a comment in the code as IBS LVT setup is not obvious at all ... Signed-off-by: Robert Richter --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 3 ++- arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c | 13 +++++++++---- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c index fabf01e..a0bf78a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c @@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static unsigned int reserve_eilvt_offset(int offset, unsigned int new) /* * If mask=1, the LVT entry does not generate interrupts while mask=0 - * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs. + * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs. Must be called with + * preemption disabled. */ int setup_APIC_eilvt(u8 offset, u8 vector, u8 msg_type, u8 mask) diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c index 9fd8a56..9cbb710 100644 --- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c +++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c @@ -609,16 +609,21 @@ static int setup_ibs_ctl(int ibs_eilvt_off) return 0; } +/* + * This runs only on the current cpu. We try to find an LVT offset and + * setup the local APIC. For this we must disable preemption. On + * success we initialize all nodes with this offset. This updates then + * the offset in the IBS_CTL per-node msr. The per-core APIC setup of + * the IBS interrupt vector is called from op_amd_setup_ctrs()/op_- + * amd_cpu_shutdown() using the new offset. + */ static int force_ibs_eilvt_setup(void) { int offset; int ret; - /* - * find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0, - * pin search to this cpu - */ preempt_disable(); + /* find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0 */ for (offset = 1; offset < APIC_EILVT_NR_MAX; offset++) { if (get_eilvt(offset)) break; -- 2.7.4