[PATCH v3] perf: Add Arm Bus Monitor Unit driver
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Sun Oct 4 15:10:58 PDT 2026
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 02:47:12PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Arm's Bus Monitor Unit is a low-level performance analysis tool for
> matching and counting transactions at interconnect interfaces. Each
> BMU consists of a number of "interface monitoring units", with some
> global controls to synchronise them and so permit accurate calculation
> of cross-interface metrics. Each IMU contains, among other things, its
> own PMU largely based on the CoreSight PMU architecture, but with some
> functional incompatibilities due to the nature of how much per-event
> filtering needs to be crammed in to categorise AXI/CHI transactions at
> the protocol level. As such it gets an honorary home in arm_cspmu/ in
> order to share the common register definitions, but for simplicity does
> not try to bend the functional abstraction to fit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
>
> ---
> v3:
> - Couple of inconsequential tweaks to shut Sashiko up about things
> that would never actually happen anyway
> - Drop unneeded DT patches that I can't be bothered to fix right now
Please can you take a look at the Sashiko comments on this one?
Will
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