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    genirq/timings: Add infrastructure to track the interrupt timings · b2d3d61a
    Daniel Lezcano authored
    The interrupt framework gives a lot of information about each interrupt. It
    does not keep track of when those interrupts occur though, which is a
    prerequisite for estimating the next interrupt arrival for power management
    purposes.
    
    Add a mechanism to record the timestamp for each interrupt occurrences in a
    per-CPU circular buffer to help with the prediction of the next occurrence
    using a statistical model.
    
    Each CPU can store up to IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE events <irq, timestamp>, the
    current value of IRQ_TIMINGS_SIZE is 32.
    
    Each event is encoded into a single u64, where the high 48 bits are used
    for the timestamp and the low 16 bits are for the irq number.
    
    A static key is introduced so when the irq prediction is switched off at
    runtime, the overhead is near to zero.
    
    It results in most of the code in internals.h for inline reasons and a very
    few in the new file timings.c. The latter will contain more in the next patch
    which will provide the statistical model for the next event prediction.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
    Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
    Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498227072-5980-1-git-send-email-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org
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