[PATCH v4 0/6] Perf tool: Support TSC for Arm64

Leo Yan leo.yan at linaro.org
Wed Sep 23 04:12:32 EDT 2020


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 01:49:06PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:07:32PM +0800, Leo Yan escreveu:
> > Hi Arnaldo,
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 07:53:05PM +0800, Leo Yan wrote:
> > > This patch set is to refactor TSC implementation and move TSC code from
> > > x86 folder to util/tsc.c, this allows all archs to reuse the code.  And
> > > alse move the TSC testing from x86 folder to tests so can work as a
> > > common testing.
> > > 
> > > So far, for x86 it needs to support cap_user_time_zero and for Arm64
> > > it needs to support cap_user_time_short.  For architecture specific
> > > code, every arch only needs to implement its own rdtsc() to read out
> > > timer's counter.
> > > 
> > > This patch set has been rebased on the perf/core branch with latest
> > > commit b1f815c479c1 ("perf vendor events power9: Add hv_24x7 core level
> > > metric events") and tested on Arm64 DB410c.
> > 
> > Could you pick up this patch set?  Thanks!
> 
> Yeah, I picked it up now, its a pity nobody provided Acks :-\

Thanks, Arnaldo!

> Or have a missed them somehow?

No, you didn't miss anything.  I should actively chase Ack tags (e.g.
Peter or Will's acknowledge) before ask merging.  Will note for this
later.

Thanks,
Leo



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