[RFC PATCH 0/6] Support raw event and DT for perf on RISC-V

[Anup Patel]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 8:49 AM Zong Li <zong.li at sifive.com> wrote:
>
> This patch set adds raw event support on RISC-V. In addition, we
> introduce the DT mechanism to make our perf more generic and common.
>
> Currently, we set the hardware events by writing the mhpmeventN CSRs, it
> would raise an illegal instruction exception and trap into m-mode to
> emulate event selector CSRs access. It doesn't make sense because we
> shouldn't write the m-mode CSRs in s-mode. Ideally, we should set event
> selector through standard SBI call or the shadow CSRs of s-mode. We have
> prepared a proposal of a new SBI extension, called "PMU SBI extension",
> but we also discussing the feasibility of accessing these PMU CSRs on
> s-mode at the same time, such as delegation mechanism, so I was
> wondering if we could use SBI calls first and make the PMU SBI extension
> as legacy when s-mode access mechanism is accepted by Foundation? or
> keep the current situation to see what would happen in the future.
>
> This patch set also introduces the DT mechanism, we don't want to add too
> much platform-dependency code in perf like other architectures, so we
> put the mapping of generic hardware events to DT, then we can easy to
> transfer generic hardware events to vendor's own hardware events without
> any platfrom-dependency stuff in our perf.

Please re-write this series to have RISC-V PMU driver as a regular
platform driver as drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c.

The PMU related sources will have to be removed from arch/riscv.

Based on implementation of final drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c we will
come-up with drivers/perf/riscv_sbi_pmu.c driver for SBI perf counters.

Regards,
Anup

>
> Zong Li (6):
>   dt-bindings: riscv: Add YAML documentation for PMU
>   riscv: dts: sifive: Add DT support for PMU
>   riscv: add definition of hpmcounter CSRs
>   riscv: perf: Add raw event support
>   riscv: perf: introduce DT mechanism
>   riscv: remove PMU menu of Kconfig
>
>  .../devicetree/bindings/riscv/pmu.yaml        |  59 +++
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig                            |  13 -
>  arch/riscv/boot/dts/sifive/fu540-c000.dtsi    |  13 +
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/csr.h                  |  58 +++
>  arch/riscv/include/asm/perf_event.h           | 100 ++--
>  arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile                    |   2 +-
>  arch/riscv/kernel/perf_event.c                | 471 +++++++++++-------
>  7 files changed, 471 insertions(+), 245 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/pmu.yaml
>
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> 2.27.0
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