[PATCH 00/14] arm_pmu: ACPI support

[Ganapatrao Kulkarni]

Hi Hanjun,

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Hanjun Guo <guohanjun at huawei.com> wrote:
> On 2017/3/10 19:04, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series implements ACPI support in the ARM PMU code. It borrows some code
>> from Jeremy's series [1], but takes a different approach to probing and
>> association, using the usual hotplug state machine, minimising external changes
>> required, and simplifying the relationship with the common arm_pmu code.
>>
>> The first few patches are preparatory cleanup/refactoring, with the latter half
>> of the series being specific to ACPI support.
>>
>> The series is based on my IRQ rework patches [2]. I've pushed the whole series
>> out to the arm/perf/acpi branch [3] of my kernel.org repo.
>>
>> Due to the innards of the hotplug callback framework, it's not entirely
>> safe to register a PMU in a hotplug callback. Due to this, we can only
>> associated hotplugged CPUs with a PMU if a matching CPU was around at
>> probe time. A similar restriction already applies to DT systems. We may
>> be able to relax this with some future work.
>>
>> I've given this some testing on a Juno platform (using SPIs). To see that IRQs
>> are correctly associated, I've tested with the following:
>>
>>   $ taskset -c ${SOME_CPU_HERE} perf record \
>>     -e armv8_pmuv3_0/cpu_cycles/ \
>>     -e armv8_pmuv3_1/cpu_cycles/ \
>>     cat /proc/interrupts
>>
>> I've also booted with nr_cpus temporarily capped (passing maxcpus=) to test the
>> association logic. This has also been tested in a VM using PPIs; I do not have
>> access to a host machine which itself uses PPIs.
>
> Booted OK and 'perf list' got on Hisilicon D03:
>
> d03-09:~ # perf list
>
> List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
>
>   branch-misses                                      [Hardware event]
>   bus-cycles                                         [Hardware event]
>   cache-misses                                       [Hardware event]
>   cache-references                                   [Hardware event]
>   cpu-cycles OR cycles                               [Hardware event]
>   instructions                                       [Hardware event]
>
>   alignment-faults                                   [Software event]
>   context-switches OR cs                             [Software event]
>   cpu-clock                                          [Software event]
>   cpu-migrations OR migrations                       [Software event]
>   dummy                                              [Software event]
>   emulation-faults                                   [Software event]
>   major-faults                                       [Software event]
>   minor-faults                                       [Software event]
>   page-faults OR faults                              [Software event]
>   task-clock                                         [Software event]
>
>   L1-dcache-load-misses                              [Hardware cache event]
>   L1-dcache-loads                                    [Hardware cache event]
>   L1-dcache-store-misses                             [Hardware cache event]
>   L1-dcache-stores                                   [Hardware cache event]
>   L1-icache-load-misses                              [Hardware cache event]
>   L1-icache-loads                                    [Hardware cache event]
>   branch-load-misses                                 [Hardware cache event]
>   branch-loads                                       [Hardware cache event]
>   dTLB-load-misses                                   [Hardware cache event]
>   iTLB-load-misses                                   [Hardware cache event]
>
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/br_mis_pred/                         [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/br_pred/                             [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/bus_access/                          [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/bus_cycles/                          [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/cid_write_retired/                   [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/cpu_cycles/                          [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/exc_return/                          [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/exc_taken/                           [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/inst_retired/                        [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/inst_spec/                           [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1d_cache/                           [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1d_cache_refill/                    [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1d_cache_wb/                        [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1d_tlb_refill/                      [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1i_cache/                           [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1i_cache_refill/                    [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l1i_tlb_refill/                      [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l2d_cache/                           [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l2d_cache_refill/                    [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/l2d_cache_wb/                        [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/mem_access/                          [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/memory_error/                        [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/sw_incr/                             [Kernel PMU event]
>   armv8_pmuv3_0/ttbr_write_retired/                  [Kernel PMU event]
>
>   rNNN                                               [Raw hardware event descriptor]
>   cpu/t1=v1[,t2=v2,t3 ...]/modifier                  [Raw hardware event descriptor]
>    (see 'man perf-list' on how to encode it)
>
>   mem:<addr>[/len][:access]                          [Hardware breakpoint]
>
>
> Try some basic perf event and it works, anything else I can try in specific?

you can try perf fuzzer

thanks
Ganapat

>
> Thanks
> Hanjun
>
>
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