Will Deacon 961ec6daa7 ARM: 6521/1: perf: use raw_spinlock_t for pmu_lock ...

For kernels built with PREEMPT_RT, critical sections protected
by standard spinlocks are preemptible. This is not acceptable
on perf as (a) we may be scheduled onto a different CPU whilst
reading/writing banked PMU registers and (b) the latency when
reading the PMU registers becomes unpredictable.

This patch upgrades the pmu_lock spinlock to a raw_spinlock
instead.

Reported-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

2010-12-04 11:18:08 +00:00

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