linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle period

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1601201634520.3575@nanos>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:41:10 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
cc:	peterz@...radead.org, rafael@...nel.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.pitre@...aro.org,
	vincent.guittot@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] sched: idle: IRQ based next prediction for idle
 period

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 01/08/2016 04:43 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > The above is completely unprotected against interrupts being setup or even
> > freed concurrently.
> > 
> > Aside of that, you call that setup function in setup_irq for each action()
> > and
> > here you call it only for the first one.
> 
> I went through the different comments and almost finished the changes but I
> think the 'register_ops' approach, which happens after some irq were setup,
> introduces some useless complexity and because of the desc lock section, the
> ops can't do memory allocation.

You can't protect that with desc_lock. You need to take the sparse_irq_lock,
which is a mutex, to protect the irq desc walk.

> Before going further, I am wondering if declaring the irq_timings_ops
> statically (read without 'register_ops' - hence without a init time
> dependency) and calling the init/free ops from alloc_desc/free_desc wouldn't
> be cleaner and simpler.

Then you don't need those ops at all. You can make it simple function calls,
which get compiled out if that stuff is not enabled.

Thanks,

	tglx