[PATCH V13 03/10] arm64/perf: Add branch stack support in struct arm_pmu
Namhyung Kim
namhyung at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 16:21:12 PDT 2023
Hello,
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:55 PM Anshuman Khandual
<anshuman.khandual at arm.com> wrote:
>
> This updates 'struct arm_pmu' for branch stack sampling support being added
> later. This adds an element 'reg_trbidr' to capture BRBE attribute details.
reg_brbidr, right?
Thanks,
Namhyung
> These updates here will help in tracking any branch stack sampling support.
>
> This also enables perf branch stack sampling event on all 'struct arm pmu',
> supporting the feature but after removing the current gate that blocks such
> events unconditionally in armpmu_event_init(). Instead a quick probe can be
> initiated via arm_pmu->has_branch_stack to ascertain the support.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
> drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 3 +--
> include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 9 ++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> index aada47e3b126..d9ffe9e56e74 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> @@ -510,8 +510,7 @@ static int armpmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
> !cpumask_test_cpu(event->cpu, &armpmu->supported_cpus))
> return -ENOENT;
>
> - /* does not support taken branch sampling */
> - if (has_branch_stack(event))
> + if (has_branch_stack(event) && !armpmu->has_branch_stack)
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>
> return __hw_perf_event_init(event);
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
> index f7fbd162ca4c..ba4204bdcebf 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
> @@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ struct arm_pmu {
> int (*map_event)(struct perf_event *event);
> void (*sched_task)(struct perf_event_pmu_context *pmu_ctx, bool sched_in);
> int num_events;
> - bool secure_access; /* 32-bit ARM only */
> + unsigned int secure_access : 1, /* 32-bit ARM only */
> + has_branch_stack: 1, /* 64-bit ARM only */
> + reserved : 30;
> #define ARMV8_PMUV3_MAX_COMMON_EVENTS 0x40
> DECLARE_BITMAP(pmceid_bitmap, ARMV8_PMUV3_MAX_COMMON_EVENTS);
> #define ARMV8_PMUV3_EXT_COMMON_EVENT_BASE 0x4000
> @@ -118,6 +120,11 @@ struct arm_pmu {
>
> /* Only to be used by ACPI probing code */
> unsigned long acpi_cpuid;
> +
> + /* Implementation specific attributes */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_BRBE
> + u64 reg_brbidr;
> +#endif
> };
>
> #define to_arm_pmu(p) (container_of(p, struct arm_pmu, pmu))
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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