+ Tvrtko and Chris for comments
Code seems to be added in:
commit 0cd4684d6ea9a4ffec33fc19de4dd667bb90d0a5
Author: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@intel.com>
Date: Tue Nov 21 18:18:50 2017 +0000
drm/i915/pmu: Add interrupt count metric
I think later in the thread there was a suggestion to replace this with
simple counter increment in IRQ handler.
Regards, Joonas
Quoting Thomas Gleixner (2020-12-06 18:38:44)
> On Fri, Dec 04 2020 at 18:43, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
>
> > Now that kstat_irqs is exported, get rid of count_interrupts in
> > i915_pmu.c
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pmu.c
> > @@ -423,22 +423,6 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart i915_sample(struct hrtimer
> > *hrtimer)
> > return HRTIMER_RESTART;
> > }
> >
> > -static u64 count_interrupts(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
> > -{
> > - /* open-coded kstat_irqs() */
> > - struct irq_desc *desc = irq_to_desc(i915->drm.pdev->irq);
> > - u64 sum = 0;
> > - int cpu;
> > -
> > - if (!desc || !desc->kstat_irqs)
> > - return 0;
> > -
> > - for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> > - sum += *per_cpu_ptr(desc->kstat_irqs, cpu);
> > -
> > - return sum;
> > -}
>
> May I ask why this has been merged in the first place?
>
> Nothing in a driver has ever to fiddle with the internals of an irq
> descriptor. We have functions for properly accessing them. Just because
> C allows to fiddle with everything is not a justification. If the
> required function is not exported then adding the export with a proper
> explanation is not asked too much.
>
> Also this lacks protection or at least a comment why this can be called
> safely and is not subject to a concurrent removal of the irq descriptor.
> The same problem exists when calling kstat_irqs(). It's even documented
> at the top of the function.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
>
>
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