From: Paul Mackerras > Nice cleanup, and thanks for updating powerpc too. With this, I think > we'll need to update the powerpc perf_counter_interrupt a bit: we > might as well use get_perf_counter_pending() instead of the wakeup > variable now. I'll send an extra patch once I have done some testing. This seems to work OK. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c | 19 +++++++------------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -723,8 +723,6 @@ static void perf_counter_interrupt(struc /* counter has overflowed */ found = 1; record_and_restart(counter, val, regs); - if (counter->wakeup_pending) - need_wakeup = 1; } } @@ -754,17 +752,14 @@ static void perf_counter_interrupt(struc /* * If we need a wakeup, check whether interrupts were soft-enabled * when we took the interrupt. If they were, we can wake stuff up - * immediately; otherwise we'll have to set a flag and do the - * wakeup when interrupts get soft-enabled. + * immediately; otherwise we'll have do the wakeup when interrupts + * get soft-enabled. */ - if (need_wakeup) { - if (regs->softe) { - irq_enter(); - perf_counter_do_pending(); - irq_exit(); - } else { - set_perf_counter_pending(); - } + if (get_perf_counter_pending() && regs->softe) { + irq_enter(); + clear_perf_counter_pending(); + perf_counter_do_pending(); + irq_exit(); } } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/