On Sun, 2020-12-06 at 17:40 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05 2020 at 12:39, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 06:43:37PM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > > > To try and detect potential interrupt storms that > > > have been occurring with tpm_tis devices it was suggested > > > to use kstat_irqs() to get the number of interrupts. > > > Since tpm_tis can be built as a module it needs kstat_irqs > > > exported. > > > > I think you should also have a paragraph explicitly stating that > > i915_pmu.c contains a duplicate of kstat_irqs() because it is not > > exported as of today. It adds a lot more weight to this given that > > there is already existing mainline usage (kind of). > > It's abusage and just the fact that it exists is not an argument by > itself. What we want is a count of the interrupts to see if we're having an interrupt storm from the TPM device (some seem to be wired to fire the interrupt even when there's no event to warrant it). Since kstat_irqs_user() does the correct RCU locking, should we be using that instead? James _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
