[PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Enable JSON events for ThunderX2 B0

[William Cohen]

On 03/07/2018 12:35 PM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi Will Cohen,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <acme at kernel.org> wrote:
>> Em Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:32:05AM -0500, William Cohen escreveu:
>>> On 03/07/2018 06:08 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
>>>> There is MIDR change on ThunderX2 B0, adding an entry to mapfile
>>>> to enable JSON events for B0.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni at cavium.com>
>>
>> Ganapatrao, can you please take this in consideration and if agreeing
>> send a v2 patch?
>>
>> With that I can add an Acked-by: wcohen, Right?
>>
>> - Arnaldo
>>>> ---
>>>>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>>>> index e61c9ca..93c5d14 100644
>>>> --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
>>>> @@ -13,4 +13,5 @@
>>>>  #
>>>>  #Family-model,Version,Filename,EventType
>>>>  0x00000000420f5160,v1,cavium,core
>>>> +0x00000000430f0af0,v1,cavium,core
>>>>  0x00000000410fd03[[:xdigit:]],v1,cortex-a53,core
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Like the cortex-a53 the last digit '0' of the match for the MIDR should be replaced with [[:xdigit:]] to allow for possible future revisions of chip:
> 
> for arm64 implementation,  bits 3:0(Revision) and bits 23:20(Variant)
> are ignored/dont-care.

Thanks for pointing that out.  See the code masking out those bits in linux/toos/perf/arch/util/header.c. For the ppc64 it just copies the equivalent of the MIDR including the revision bits. Thus, the need for regular expression matching to avoid having to create a new entry for each revision.

-Will

> 
>>>
>>> 0x00000000430f0af[[:xdigit:]],v1,cavium,core
>>>
>>>
>>> -Will Cohen
>>
> 
> thanks
> Ganapat
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