linux.git/arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c, branch v2.6.35 Linux kernel source tree ARM: 6064/1: pmu: register IRQs at runtime 2010-05-17T10:53:57+00:00 Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com 2010-04-29T16:13:24+00:00 49c006b93769a86bec2b32b9234abf016ac0d50e The current PMU infrastructure for ARM requires that the IRQs for the PMU device are fixed at compile time and are selected based on the ARCH_ or MACH_ flags. This has the disadvantage of tying the Kernel down to a particular board as far as profiling is concerned. This patch replaces the compile-time IRQ registration with a runtime mechanism which allows the IRQs to be registered with the framework as a platform_device. A further advantage of this change is that there is scope for registering different types of performance counters in the future by changing the id of the platform_device and attaching different resources to it. Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
The current PMU infrastructure for ARM requires that the IRQs for the PMU
device are fixed at compile time and are selected based on the ARCH_ or MACH_ flags. This has the disadvantage of tying the Kernel down to a
particular board as far as profiling is concerned.

This patch replaces the compile-time IRQ registration with a runtime mechanism which allows the IRQs to be registered with the framework as
a platform_device.

A further advantage of this change is that there is scope for registering
different types of performance counters in the future by changing the id
of the platform_device and attaching different resources to it.

Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
ARM: 5899/2: arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters 2010-02-12T17:23:43+00:00 Jamie Iles jamie.iles@picochip.com 2010-02-02T19:23:15+00:00 0f4f0672ac950c96cffaf84a666d35e817d7c3ca To add support for perf events and to allow the hardware counters to be shared with oprofile, we need a way to reserve access to the pmu (performance monitor unit). Platforms with PMU interrupts should register the interrupts in arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> 
To add support for perf events and to allow the hardware counters to be
shared with oprofile, we need a way to reserve access to the pmu
(performance monitor unit). Platforms with PMU interrupts should
register the interrupts in arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>