linux/arch
Peter Zijlstra a8b0ca17b8 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
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alpha perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
arm perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
avr32 rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
blackfin rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] wire up sendmmsg() syscall for Itanium 2011-05-31 10:09:24 -07:00
m32r Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
m68k m68k: use kernel processor defines for conditional optimizations 2011-06-14 11:42:29 +10:00
microblaze Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
mips perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
mn10300 MN10300: asm/uaccess.h needs to #include linux/kernel.h for might_sleep() 2011-06-21 18:31:44 -07:00
parisc Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
powerpc perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
s390 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
score arch: remove CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_{NEXT_BIT,BIT_LE,LAST_BIT} 2011-05-26 17:12:38 -07:00
sh perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
sparc perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
tile Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
um um: add asm/percpu.h 2011-06-27 18:00:12 -07:00
unicore32 unicore32: using generic-y format for one line asm-generic files 2011-06-09 16:29:52 +08:00
x86 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'setns' 2011-05-28 10:51:01 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00