[PATCH v2 00/10] riscv: Allow userspace to directly access perf counters

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Fri, 12 May 2023 01:53:11 PDT (-0700), alexghiti at rivosinc.com wrote:
> riscv used to allow direct access to cycle/time/instret counters,
> bypassing the perf framework, this patchset intends to allow the user to
> mmap any counter when accessed through perf. But we can't break the
> existing behaviour so we introduce a sysctl perf_user_access like arm64
> does, which defaults to the legacy mode described above.
>
> *Note* that there are still ongoing discussions around which mode should
> be the default mode with distro people.
>
> base-commit-tag: v6.3
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Split into smaller patches, way better!
> - Add RB from Conor
> - Simplify the way we checked riscv architecture
> - Fix race mmap and other thread running on other cpus
> - Use hwc when available
> - Set all userspace access flags in event_init, too cumbersome to handle sysctl changes
> - Fix arch_perf_update_userpage for pmu other than riscv-pmu by renaming pmu driver
> - Fixed kernel test robot build error
> - Fixed documentation (Andrew and Bagas)
> - perf testsuite passes mmap tests in all 3 modes
>
> Alexandre Ghiti (10):
>   perf: Fix wrong comment about default event_idx
>   include: riscv: Fix wrong include guard in riscv_pmu.h
>   riscv: Make legacy counter enum match the HW numbering
>   drivers: perf: Rename riscv pmu driver
>   riscv: Prepare for user-space perf event mmap support
>   drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support in the legacy backend
>   drivers: perf: Implement perf event mmap support in the SBI backend
>   Documentation: admin-guide: Add riscv sysctl_perf_user_access
>   tools: lib: perf: Implement riscv mmap support
>   perf: tests: Adapt mmap-basic.c for riscv
>
>  Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst |  24 ++-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                  |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/perf_event.c              |  74 ++++++++
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c                    |  41 ++++
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_legacy.c             |  37 +++-
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c                | 196 +++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/perf/riscv_pmu.h              |  10 +-
>  include/linux/perf_event.h                  |   3 +-
>  tools/lib/perf/mmap.c                       |  65 +++++++
>  tools/perf/tests/mmap-basic.c               |   4 +-
>  10 files changed, 435 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/riscv/kernel/perf_event.c

It looks like there's a handful of outstanding review comments, so I'm 
going to mark this as changes requested in patchwork -- sorry if I 
missed a v3.