linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] /proc/stat: Call kstat_irqs

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Date:   Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:19:33 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] /proc/stat: Call kstat_irqs_usr() only for active
 IRQs

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> --- a/kernel/irq/internals.h
> +++ b/kernel/irq/internals.h
> @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ static inline void kstat_incr_irqs_this_
>  {
>  	__this_cpu_inc(*desc->kstat_irqs);
>  	__this_cpu_inc(kstat.irqs_sum);
> +	desc->tot_count++;

There is one issue here. True percpu interrupts, like the timer interrupts
on ARM(64), will access that in parallel. But that's not rocket science to
fix.

Thanks,

	tglx