ARM: 6330/1: perf: reword comments relating to perf_event_do_pending

This is purely a cosmetic change to the ARM perf backend because the current
comments about the relationship between NMIs, interrupt context and
perf_event_do_pending are misleading.

This patch updates the comments so that they reflect what the code
actually does (which is in line with other architectures).

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>

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
index 48837e6..b5799a3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * counter interrupts are regular interrupts and not an NMI. This
  * means that when we receive the interrupt we can call
  * perf_event_do_pending() that handles all of the work with
- * interrupts enabled.
+ * interrupts disabled.
  */
 static inline void
 set_perf_event_pending(void)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
index 417c392..e213925 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -1041,8 +1041,8 @@ armv6pmu_handle_irq(int irq_num,
        /*
         * Handle the pending perf events.
         *
-        * Note: this call *must* be run with interrupts enabled. For
-        * platforms that can have the PMU interrupts raised as a PMI, this
+        * Note: this call *must* be run with interrupts disabled. For
+        * platforms that can have the PMU interrupts raised as an NMI, this
         * will not work.
         */
        perf_event_do_pending();
@@ -2017,8 +2017,8 @@ static irqreturn_t armv7pmu_handle_irq(int irq_num, void *dev)
        /*
         * Handle the pending perf events.
         *
-        * Note: this call *must* be run with interrupts enabled. For
-        * platforms that can have the PMU interrupts raised as a PMI, this
+        * Note: this call *must* be run with interrupts disabled. For
+        * platforms that can have the PMU interrupts raised as an NMI, this
         * will not work.
         */
        perf_event_do_pending();