Re: [RFC] per-CPU usage in perf core-book3s

2020-02-05 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2020-02-05 07:10:59 [+0530], maddy wrote: > Yes, currently we dont have anything that prevents the timer > callback to interrupt pmu::event_init. Nice catch. Thanks for > pointing this out. You are welcome. > Looking at the code, per-cpu variable access are made to > check for constraints and

Re: [RFC] per-CPU usage in perf core-book3s

2020-02-04 Thread maddy
On 1/27/20 8:36 PM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: I've been looking at usage of per-CPU variable cpu_hw_events in arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c. power_pmu_enable() and power_pmu_disable() (pmu::pmu_enable() and pmu::pmu_disable()) are accessing the variable and the callbacks are invoked

[RFC] per-CPU usage in perf core-book3s

2020-01-27 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
I've been looking at usage of per-CPU variable cpu_hw_events in arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c. power_pmu_enable() and power_pmu_disable() (pmu::pmu_enable() and pmu::pmu_disable()) are accessing the variable and the callbacks are invoked always with disabled interrupts. power_pmu_event_init() (