<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/arch/arm/kernel/smp.c, branch v6.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ARM: smp: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization</title>
<updated>2023-05-15T11:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-12T21:07:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5490e769cdc7230cb93e804e656cce19d6c82253'/>
<id>5490e769cdc7230cb93e804e656cce19d6c82253</id>
<content type='text'>
Switch to the CPU hotplug core state tracking and synchronization
mechanim. No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt; # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205256.635326070@linutronix.de
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Switch to the CPU hotplug core state tracking and synchronization
mechanim. No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko &lt;oleksandr@natalenko.name&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt; # Steam Deck
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512205256.635326070@linutronix.de
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:03:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f20730efbd305d42eded761f6fbd9a59d6125228'/>
<id>f20730efbd305d42eded761f6fbd9a59d6125228</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics

 - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy
   way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major
   architectures it's not even consistently available.

* tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu()
  sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI
  smp: reword smp call IPI comment
  treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()
  irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise()
  smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask()
  sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()
  trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask()
  kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable
  locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging
  locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu: Mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn</title>
<updated>2023-04-14T15:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-12T23:49:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7412a60decec2a6744cf773280ff17a0f89e8395'/>
<id>7412a60decec2a6744cf773280ff17a0f89e8395</id>
<content type='text'>
In preparation for improving objtool's handling of weak noreturn
functions, mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92d76ab5c8bf660f04fdcd3da1084519212de248.1681342859.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
In preparation for improving objtool's handling of weak noreturn
functions, mark panic_smp_self_stop() __noreturn.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/92d76ab5c8bf660f04fdcd3da1084519212de248.1681342859.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule()</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T10:01:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>vschneid@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T14:35:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4c8c3c7f70a6779d30f5492acbc9978f4636fe7a'/>
<id>4c8c3c7f70a6779d30f5492acbc9978f4636fe7a</id>
<content type='text'>
To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.

Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle script:

  @func_use@
  @@
  smp_send_reschedule(...);

  @include@
  @@
  #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

  @no_include depends on func_use &amp;&amp; !include@
  @@
    #include &lt;...&gt;
  +
  + #include &lt;trace/events/ipi.h&gt;

[csky bits]
[riscv bits]
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@rivosinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-6-vschneid@redhat.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi()</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T10:01:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>vschneid@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T14:35:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=cc9cb0a71725aa8dd8d8f534a9b562bbf7981f75'/>
<id>cc9cb0a71725aa8dd8d8f534a9b562bbf7981f75</id>
<content type='text'>
send_call_function_single_ipi() is the thing that sends IPIs at the bottom
of smp_call_function*() via either generic_exec_single() or
smp_call_function_many_cond(). Give it an IPI-related tracepoint.

Note that this ends up tracing any IPI sent via __smp_call_single_queue(),
which covers __ttwu_queue_wakelist() and irq_work_queue_on() "for free".

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-3-vschneid@redhat.com
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
send_call_function_single_ipi() is the thing that sends IPIs at the bottom
of smp_call_function*() via either generic_exec_single() or
smp_call_function_many_cond(). Give it an IPI-related tracepoint.

Note that this ends up tracing any IPI sent via __smp_call_single_queue(),
which covers __ttwu_queue_wakelist() and irq_work_queue_on() "for free".

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307143558.294354-3-vschneid@redhat.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/idle: Mark arch_cpu_idle_dead() __noreturn</title>
<updated>2023-03-08T16:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-14T07:05:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=071c44e4278156f18a6a56958617223b6bffa6ab'/>
<id>071c44e4278156f18a6a56958617223b6bffa6ab</id>
<content type='text'>
Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Before commit 076cbf5d2163 ("x86/xen: don't let xen_pv_play_dead()
return"), in Xen, when a previously offlined CPU was brought back
online, it unexpectedly resumed execution where it left off in the
middle of the idle loop.

There were some hacks to make that work, but the behavior was surprising
as do_idle() doesn't expect an offlined CPU to return from the dead (in
arch_cpu_idle_dead()).

Now that Xen has been fixed, and the arch-specific implementations of
arch_cpu_idle_dead() also don't return, give it a __noreturn attribute.

This will cause the compiler to complain if an arch-specific
implementation might return.  It also improves code generation for both
caller and callee.

Also fixes the following warning:

  vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_idle+0x25f: unreachable instruction

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/60d527353da8c99d4cf13b6473131d46719ed16d.1676358308.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm/cpu: Add unreachable() to arch_cpu_idle_dead()</title>
<updated>2023-03-06T23:34:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-16T18:38:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b40c7d6d31ac2f6b78371cdc08bc1b6b62f01375'/>
<id>b40c7d6d31ac2f6b78371cdc08bc1b6b62f01375</id>
<content type='text'>
arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return.  Make that visible to the compiler
with an unreachable() code annotation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230216183851.s5bnvniomq44rytu@treble
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
arch_cpu_idle_dead() doesn't return.  Make that visible to the compiler
with an unreachable() code annotation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230216183851.s5bnvniomq44rytu@treble
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm, smp: Remove trace_.*_rcuidle() usage</title>
<updated>2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-12T19:43:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=08a56e07cd3cb91dc700ba0a879d17e4879dd617'/>
<id>08a56e07cd3cb91dc700ba0a879d17e4879dd617</id>
<content type='text'>
None of these functions should ever be ran with RCU disabled anymore.

Specifically, do_handle_IPI() is only called from handle_IPI() which
explicitly does irq_enter()/irq_exit() which ensures RCU is watching.

The problem with smp_cross_call() was, per commit description:

   7c64cc0531fa ("arm: Use _rcuidle for smp_cross_call() tracepoints")

... that cpuidle_enter_state_coupled() already had RCU disabled, but that's
long been fixed by commit:

  1098582a0f6c ("sched,idle,rcu: Push rcu_idle deeper into the idle path")

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.743432118@infradead.org
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
None of these functions should ever be ran with RCU disabled anymore.

Specifically, do_handle_IPI() is only called from handle_IPI() which
explicitly does irq_enter()/irq_exit() which ensures RCU is watching.

The problem with smp_cross_call() was, per commit description:

   7c64cc0531fa ("arm: Use _rcuidle for smp_cross_call() tracepoints")

... that cpuidle_enter_state_coupled() already had RCU disabled, but that's
long been fixed by commit:

  1098582a0f6c ("sched,idle,rcu: Push rcu_idle deeper into the idle path")

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.743432118@infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: 9257/1: Disable FIQs (but not IRQs) on CPUs shutdown paths</title>
<updated>2022-11-07T14:19:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guilherme G. Piccoli</name>
<email>gpiccoli@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-17T19:41:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8fc0b333a7dd9b98040096296ba591a3ac3e12c0'/>
<id>8fc0b333a7dd9b98040096296ba591a3ac3e12c0</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently the regular CPU shutdown path for ARM disables IRQs/FIQs
in the secondary CPUs - smp_send_stop() calls ipi_cpu_stop(), which
is responsible for that. IRQs are architecturally masked when we
take an interrupt, but FIQs are high priority than IRQs, hence they
aren't masked. With that said, it makes sense to disable FIQs here,
but there's no need for (re-)disabling IRQs.

More than that: there is an alternative path for disabling CPUs,
in the form of function crash_smp_send_stop(), which is used for
kexec/panic path. This function relies on a SMP call that also
triggers a busy-wait loop [at machine_crash_nonpanic_core()], but
without disabling FIQs. This might lead to odd scenarios, like
early interrupts in the boot of kexec'd kernel or even interrupts
in secondary "disabled" CPUs while the main one still works in the
panic path and assumes all secondary CPUs are (really!) off.

So, let's disable FIQs in both paths and *not* disable IRQs a second
time, since they are already masked in both paths by the architecture.
This way, we keep both CPU quiesce paths consistent and safe.

Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Currently the regular CPU shutdown path for ARM disables IRQs/FIQs
in the secondary CPUs - smp_send_stop() calls ipi_cpu_stop(), which
is responsible for that. IRQs are architecturally masked when we
take an interrupt, but FIQs are high priority than IRQs, hence they
aren't masked. With that said, it makes sense to disable FIQs here,
but there's no need for (re-)disabling IRQs.

More than that: there is an alternative path for disabling CPUs,
in the form of function crash_smp_send_stop(), which is used for
kexec/panic path. This function relies on a SMP call that also
triggers a busy-wait loop [at machine_crash_nonpanic_core()], but
without disabling FIQs. This might lead to odd scenarios, like
early interrupts in the boot of kexec'd kernel or even interrupts
in secondary "disabled" CPUs while the main one still works in the
panic path and assumes all secondary CPUs are (really!) off.

So, let's disable FIQs in both paths and *not* disable IRQs a second
time, since they are already masked in both paths by the architecture.
This way, we keep both CPU quiesce paths consistent and safe.

Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kelley &lt;mikelley@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli &lt;gpiccoli@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>profile: setup_profiling_timer() is moslty not implemented</title>
<updated>2022-07-30T01:12:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben-linux@fluff.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-21T19:55:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=787dbea11a5d6843999ff71a3fb9aa1ed6d5d889'/>
<id>787dbea11a5d6843999ff71a3fb9aa1ed6d5d889</id>
<content type='text'>
The setup_profiling_timer() is mostly un-implemented by many
architectures.  In many places it isn't guarded by CONFIG_PROFILE which is
needed for it to be used.  Make it a weak symbol in kernel/profile.c and
remove the 'return -EINVAL' implementations from the kenrel.

There are a couple of architectures which do return 0 from the
setup_profiling_timer() function but they don't seem to do anything else
with it.  To keep the /proc compatibility for now, leave these for a
future update or removal.

On ARM, this fixes the following sparse warning:
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220721195509.418205-1-ben-linux@fluff.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The setup_profiling_timer() is mostly un-implemented by many
architectures.  In many places it isn't guarded by CONFIG_PROFILE which is
needed for it to be used.  Make it a weak symbol in kernel/profile.c and
remove the 'return -EINVAL' implementations from the kenrel.

There are a couple of architectures which do return 0 from the
setup_profiling_timer() function but they don't seem to do anything else
with it.  To keep the /proc compatibility for now, leave these for a
future update or removal.

On ARM, this fixes the following sparse warning:
arch/arm/kernel/smp.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'setup_profiling_timer' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220721195509.418205-1-ben-linux@fluff.org
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben-linux@fluff.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
