Re: PMU and timer interrupts

From: Stephane Eranian <eranian_at_hpl.hp.com>
Date: 2006-02-11 08:22:30
Ken,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:33:20PM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> Stephane Eranian wrote on Friday, February 10, 2006 5:35 AM
> > Suposing I move up the PERFMON_VECTOR to 0xf1, it will be in the
> > top priority class (15) with the following vectors:
> > 
> > Today, the PMU interrupt handler runs with interrupts disabled,
> > as such the situation would not be different. In fact, we could
> > skip masking/unmasking because we would be in the top class +
> > TPR masking done by the kernel on interrupt.
> > 
> > Anybody, has a problem with this?
> 
> If your goal is to be able to sample timer interrupt with PMU, you
> won't get it even after you move PMU vector one class up.  Because
> just like PMU vector, timer interrupt handler is run with interrupt
> off all the through.
> 
Are you talking about timer_interrupt()? Where is the masking happening
exactly?

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-Stephane
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