Thomas Gleixner @ 2020-12-06 10:54 MST: > Jerry, > > On Fri, Dec 04 2020 at 18:43, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > > The proper prefix is 'genirq:' git log kernel/irq/irqdesc.c would have > told you. > >> 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'm not really enthused about exporting this without making it at least > safe. Using it from an interrupt handler is obviously safe vs. concurrent > removal, but the next driver writer who thinks this is cool is going to > get it wrong for sure. > > Though I still have to figure out what the advantage of invoking a > function which needs to do a radix tree lookup over a device local > counter is just to keep track of this. > > I'll reply on the TPM part of this as well. > > Thanks, > > tglx I can rework it to use a device local counter.
