[PATCH v14 0/6] Enable PMUs in ACPI systems
Ganapatrao Kulkarni
gpkulkarni at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 22:46:58 PST 2017
Hi Jeremy,
do you have any public git branch to try these patches?
thanks
Ganapat
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com> wrote:
> This patch expands and reworks the patches published by Mark Salter
> in order to clean up a few of the previous review comments, as well as
> add support for newer CPUs and big/little configurations.
>
> v14:
> - drop rename patch requested for v6
> - Shuffle couple include lines from one patch to a later
> patch.
>
> v13:
> - Correct int/bool conversion bug in pmu_acpi_init()
> created during v10 code shuffle
>
> v12:
> - Rebase to 4.10
> - Removed lock in the hotplug path.
>
> v11:
> - Add is_smp() check to read_specific_cpuid() for arch/arm. Update
> c_show() and various routines in arm_pmu_acpi() to use the macro.
> - Moved the duplicate "generic" pmu detection code into its own
> patch and hoist it into arm_pmu_device_probe() so it works
> for DT based systems as well.
>
> v10:
> - Rebase to 4.9
> - Rework the arm_perf_start_cpu changes to support the 4.9 hotplug
> changes.
> - Remove the call to acpi_register_gsi() from the cpu online code path.
> Instead the GSI's are registered during the initcall. This changes
> the error handling a bit because we now try to clean up the
> previously registered GSIs in a couple important places. This
> was also a result of the rebase.
> - Dropped the MIDR partnumber usage, its no longer necessary to
> differentiate by only the partnum, so this helps to clarify the code
> a bit.
> - Shuffle some code around and rename a few variables.
> - Added a few comments to hopefully clarify some questions people have
> previously had about unused MADT entries, skipping processing cores
> with MIDR=0, etc.
>
> v9:
> - Add/cleanup an additional hotplug patch I've had sitting around. This
> patch brings the ACPI PMU mostly on par with the DT functionality with
> respect to having CPUs offline during boot. This should help clarify
> some of the code structuring.
> - Cleanup the list of PMU types early if we fail to allocate memory for an
> additional pmu type.
>
> v8:
> - Rebase to 4.8rc4
> - Assorted minor comment/hunk placement/etc tweaks per Punit Agrawal
>
> v7:
> - Rebase to 4.8rc3
> - Remove cpu affinity sysfs entry. While providing a CPU mask for
> ARMv8 PMU's is really helpful in big/little environments, reworking
> the PMU code to support the cpumask attribute for !arm64 PMUs is out
> of the scope of this patch set.
> - Fix CPU miscount problem where an alloc failure followed by successfully
> allocating the structure can result in under counting the CPUs associated
> with the PMU. This bug was created in v6 with the conversion to a linked
> list.
> - Remove initial platform device creation code by Mark Salter, and re-squash
> multiple platform device creation code together with helper routines.
> Other minor tweakage.
>
> v6:
> - Added cpu affinity sysfs entry
> - Converted pmu_types array, to linked list
> - Restrict use of the armv8_pmu_probe_table to ACPI systems
> - Rename MADT parsing routines in smp.c
> - Convert sysfs PMU name to use index rather than partnum
> - Remove pr_devel statements
> - Other Minor cleanups
> - Add Partial Ack-by Will Deacon
>
> v5:
> - Remove list of CPU types for ACPI systems. We now match a generic
> event list, and use the PMCIED[01] to select events which exist on
> the given PMU. This avoids the need to update the kernel every time
> a new CPU is released.
> - Update the maintainers list to include the new file.
>
> v4:
> - Correct build issues with ARM (!ARM64) kernels.
> - Add ThunderX to list of PMU types.
>
>
> Jeremy Linton (5):
> arm: arm64: Add routine to determine cpuid of other cpus
> arm: arm64: pmu: Assign platform PMU CPU affinity
> arm64: pmu: Detect multiple generic PMUs and append counter
> arm64: pmu: Detect and enable multiple PMUs in an ACPI system
> arm: pmu: Add PMU definitions for cores not initially online
>
> Mark Salter (1):
> arm64: pmu: Cache PMU interrupt numbers from MADT parse
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/cputype.h | 4 +
> arch/arm/kernel/setup.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cputype.h | 3 +
> arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 5 +
> drivers/perf/Kconfig | 4 +
> drivers/perf/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 103 +++++++++++++--
> drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c | 271 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 12 ++
> 10 files changed, 393 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c
>
> --
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