[PATCH v8 1/9] perf pmu: Add #slots literal support for arm64

John Garry john.g.garry at oracle.com
Tue Jan 17 00:45:05 PST 2023


On 17/01/2023 07:29, Jing Zhang wrote:
> The slots in each architecture may be different, so add #slots literal
> to obtain the slots of different architectures, and the #slots can be
> applied in the metric. Currently, The #slots just support for arm64,
> and other architectures will return NAN.
> 
> On arm64, the value of slots is from the register PMMIR_EL1.SLOT, which
> I can read in /sys/bus/event_source/device/armv8_pmuv3_*/caps/slots.
> PMMIR_EL1.SLOT might read as zero if the PMU version is lower than
> ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_V3P4 or the STALL_SLOT event is not implemented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang<renyu.zj at linux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry at oracle.com>



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