[PATCH 0/9] ARM perf updates for 3.7

Hui Wang jason77.wang at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 05:11:37 EDT 2012


Hi Will Deacon,

For SMP platforms, each CPU core has an independent PMU, and each PMU 
has a dedicated irq (SPI or PPI). Current perf subsystem framework only 
supports each PMU to have a dedicated SPI irq, and it will support each 
PMU to have a PPI irq (i have seen someone has sent out the patches), 
but there is a situation the subsystem doesn't support yet, the 
situation is multi PMUs share one same SPI irq, e.g. the i.MX6Quad CPU 
has 4 cortex-a9 cores, each core has a PMU, all PMU irqs are routed 
(ORed) to one SPI irq, do you know how to support this situation?

Regards,
Hui.




Will Deacon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This patch series contains the ARM perf updates I'd like to push for 3.7
> Most of the code is cleanup in preparation for big.LITTLE PMU support,
> where we will need to support different types of CPU PMU on the same SoC.
>
> The PMU probing has changed so that we try to identify the PMU using its
> DT binding before falling back to probing the current core. The unused
> PMU registration mechanism is also removed and platforms registering
> the device have been updated accordingly.
>
> Given that this touches a few platforms, I anticipate sending it via
> arm-soc.
>
> All feedback welcome,
>
> Will
>
>
> Jon Hunter (1):
>   ARM: PMU: Add runtime PM Support
>
> Sudeep KarkadaNagesha (2):
>   ARM: pmu: remove arm_pmu_type enumeration
>   ARM: perf: move irq registration into pmu implementation
>
> Will Deacon (6):
>   ARM: perf: add devicetree bindings for 11MPcore, A5, A7 and A15 PMUs
>   ARM: pmu: remove unused reservation mechanism
>   ARM: perf: remove mysterious compiler barrier
>   ARM: perf: probe devicetree in preference to current CPU
>   ARM: perf: prepare for moving CPU PMU code into separate file
>   ARM: perf: move CPU-specific PMU handling code into separate file
>
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.txt |    4 +
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |    1 -
>  arch/arm/Kconfig                              |    8 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/perf_event.h             |    9 +-
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h                    |   77 ++----
>  arch/arm/kernel/Makefile                      |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c                  |  347 ++++---------------------
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c              |  295 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v6.c               |   12 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c               |   32 ++--
>  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_xscale.c           |   10 +-
>  arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c                         |   36 ---
>  arch/arm/mach-bcmring/arch.c                  |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/devices.c                 |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-pxa/devices.c                   |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_eb.c          |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb1176.c      |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pb11mp.c      |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pba8.c        |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-realview/realview_pbx.c         |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-tegra/devices.c                 |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-ux500/cpu-db8500.c              |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ct-ca9x4.c             |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/plat-iop/pmu.c                       |    3 +-
>  arch/arm/plat-samsung/devs.c                  |    3 +-
>  25 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 449 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_cpu.c
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c
>
>   




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