On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Paul Burton wrote: > > +static struct irqaction c0_perf_irqaction = { > + .handler = mipsxx_pmu_handle_irq, > + .flags = IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_TIMER | IRQF_SHARED | IRQF_NOAUTOEN, > + .name = "mips_perf_pmu", > + .percpu_dev_id = &mipspmu, > +}; > + > static int mipspmu_get_irq(void) > { > - int err; > + if (irq_is_percpu_devid(mipspmu.irq)) > + return setup_percpu_irq(mipspmu.irq, &c0_perf_irqaction); > > - err = request_irq(mipspmu.irq, mipsxx_pmu_handle_irq, > - IRQF_PERCPU | IRQF_NOBALANCING | > - IRQF_NO_THREAD | IRQF_NO_SUSPEND | > - IRQF_SHARED, > - "mips_perf_pmu", &mipspmu); > - if (err) > - pr_warn("Unable to request IRQ%d for MIPS performance counters!\n", > - mipspmu.irq); > - return err; > + return setup_irq(mipspmu.irq, &c0_perf_irqaction); request_irq() is really preferred over setup_irq(). setup_irq() exists for historical reasons because back in the days the allocators were not working when early interrupts got initialized. Today that's a non issue, but I never got around to remove the setup_irq() cruft. Thanks, tglx