linux/arch/sh
Peter Zijlstra a8b0ca17b8 perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.

For the various event classes:

  - hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
    the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
  - tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
  - software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
    perform wakeups, and hence need 0.

As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).

The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
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boards sh: ecovec: Add renesas_usbhs support 2011-06-16 15:05:42 +09:00
boot sh: Remove compressed kernel libgcc dependency. 2011-06-06 17:57:58 +09:00
cchips sh: Convert to new function names 2011-03-29 14:48:13 +02:00
configs rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
drivers SH: SE7751: Fix pcibios_map_platform_irq prototype. 2011-05-23 14:46:36 +09:00
include Fix node_start/end_pfn() definition for mm/page_cgroup.c 2011-06-27 14:13:09 -07:00
kernel perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
lib sh: Ensure ST40-300 BogoMIPS value is consistent 2011-02-15 16:24:05 +09:00
lib64 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
math-emu perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
mm perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the swevent and overflow interface 2011-07-01 11:06:35 +02:00
oprofile sh: remove warning and warning_symbol from struct stacktrace_ops 2011-05-23 14:42:15 +09:00
tools sh: Add support for AP-SH4AD-0A board. 2011-01-13 18:36:21 +09:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into sh-fixes-for-linus 2011-05-31 13:10:26 +09:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug lib: consolidate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option 2011-05-25 08:39:54 -07:00
Makefile sh: support XZ-compressed kernel. 2011-01-14 15:52:54 +09:00