It's a good fix, you can drop the RFC in commit title. :)
The title could be more specific, like:
fpga: dfl: fme: Fix cpu hotplug issue in performance reporting
So we know it is for performance reporting feature at first glance.
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:45:46PM +0530, Kajol Jain wrote:
> Commit 724142f8c42a ("fpga: dfl: fme: add performance
> reporting support") added performance reporting support
> for FPGA management engine via perf.
May drop this section, it is indicated in the Fixes tag.
>
> It also added cpu hotplug feature but it didn't add
The performance reporting driver added cpu hotplug ...
> pmu migration call in cpu offline function.
> This can create an issue incase the current designated
> cpu being used to collect fme pmu data got offline,
> as based on current code we are not migrating fme pmu to
> new target cpu. Because of that perf will still try to
> fetch data from that offline cpu and hence we will not
> get counter data.
>
> Patch fixed this issue by adding pmu_migrate_context call
> in fme_perf_offline_cpu function.
>
> Fixes: 724142f8c42a ("fpga: dfl: fme: add performance reporting support")
> Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks,
Yilun
> ---
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> ---
> - This fix patch is not tested (as I don't have required environment).
> But issue mentioned in the commit msg can be re-created, by starting any
> fme_perf event and while its still running, offline current designated
> cpu pointed by cpumask file. Since current code didn't migrating pmu,
> perf gonna try getting counts from that offlined cpu and hence we will
> not get event data.
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c
> index 4299145ef347..b9a54583e505 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-perf.c
> @@ -953,6 +953,10 @@ static int fme_perf_offline_cpu(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
> return 0;
>
> priv->cpu = target;
> +
> + /* Migrate fme_perf pmu events to the new target cpu */
> + perf_pmu_migrate_context(&priv->pmu, cpu, target);
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.31.1
