[PATCH v5 01/15] docs: Add device tree bindings for SBI PMU extension

[Anup Patel]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 9:48 PM Atish Patra <atish.patra at wdc.com> wrote:
>
> SBI PMU extension requires a firmware to be aware of the event to
> counter/mhpmevent mappings supported by the hardware. One approach
> is to encode that information in the device tree.
>
> Define a device tree binding that allows a hardware to describe
> all the PMU mappings required in concise format.
>
> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at wdc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra at wdc.com>

Applied this patch to the riscv/opensbi repo.

Thanks,
Anup

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>  docs/pmu_support.md | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 docs/pmu_support.md
>
> diff --git a/docs/pmu_support.md b/docs/pmu_support.md
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..4d34961053aa
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/docs/pmu_support.md
> @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
> +OpenSBI SBI PMU extension support
> +==================================
> +SBI PMU extension supports allow supervisor software to configure/start/stop
> +any performance counter at anytime. Thus, an user can leverage full
> +capability of performance analysis tools such as perf if SBI PMU extension is
> +enabled. The OpenSBI implementation makes the following assumptions about the
> +hardware platform.
> +
> + * MCOUNTINHIBIT CSR must be implemented in the hardware. Otherwise, SBI PMU
> +extension will not be enabled.
> +
> + * The platform must provide information about PMU event to counter mapping
> +via device tree or platform specific hooks. Otherwise, SBI PMU extension will
> +not be enabled.
> +
> + * The platforms should provide information about the PMU event selector values
> +that should be encoded in the expected value of MHPMEVENTx while configuring
> +MHPMCOUNTERx for that specific event. This can be done via a device tree or
> +platform specific hooks. The exact value to be written to he MHPMEVENTx is
> +completely depends on platform. Generic platform writes the zero-extended event_idx
> +as the expected value for hardware cache/generic events as suggested by the SBI
> +specification.
> +
> +SBI PMU Device Tree Bindings
> +----------------------------
> +
> +Platforms may choose to describe PMU event selector and event to counter mapping
> +values via device tree. The following sections describes the PMU DT node
> +bindings in details.
> +
> +* **compatible** (Mandatory) - The compatible string of SBI PMU device tree node.
> +This DT property must have the value **riscv,pmu**.
> +
> +* **pmu,event-to-mhpmevent**(Optional) - It represents an ONE-to-ONE mapping
> +between a PMU event and the event selector value that platform expects to be
> +written to the MHPMEVENTx CSR for that event. The mapping is encoded in a
> +table format where each row represents an event. The first column represent the
> +event idx where the 2nd & 3rd column represent the event selector value that
> +should be encoded in the expected value to be written in MHPMEVENTx.
> +This property shouldn't encode any raw hardware event.
> +
> +* **pmu,event-to-mhpmcounters**(Optional) - It represents a MANY-to-MANY
> +mapping between a range of events and all the MHPMCOUNTERx in a bitmap format
> +that can be used to monitor these range of events. The information is encoded in
> +a table format where each row represent a certain range of events and
> +corresponding counters. The first column represents starting of the pmu event id
> +and 2nd column represents the end of the pmu event id. The third column
> +represent a bitmap of all the MHPMCOUNTERx. This property is mandatory if
> +event-to-mhpmevent is present. Otherwise, it can be omitted. This property
> +shouldn't encode any raw event.
> +
> +* **pmu,raw-event-to-mhpmcounters**(Optional) - It represents an ONE-to-MANY
> +mapping between a raw event and all the MHPMCOUNTERx in a bitmap format that can
> +be used to monitor that raw event. The information is encoded in a table format
> +where each raw represent a specific raw event. The first column stores the
> +expected event selector value that should be encoded in the expected value to be
> +written in MHPMEVENTx. The second column stores a bitmap of all the MHPMCOUNTERx
> +that can be used for monitoring the specified event.
> +
> +*Note:* A platform may choose to provide the mapping between event & counters
> +via platform hooks rather than the device tree.
> +
> +### Example
> +
> +```
> +pmu {
> +      compatible                       = "riscv,pmu";
> +      interrupts                       = <0x100>;
> +      interrupt-parent                         = <&plic>
> +      pmu,event-to-mhpmevent           = <0x0000B  0x0000 0x0001>,
> +      pmu,event-to-mhpmcounters        = <0x00001 0x00001 0x00000001>,
> +                                         <0x00002 0x00002 0x00000004>,
> +                                         <0x00003 0x0000A 0x00000ff8>,
> +                                         <0x10000 0x10033 0x000ff000>,
> +      pmu,raw-event-to-mhpmcounters    = <0x0000 0x0002 0x00000f8>,
> +                                         <0x0000 0x0003 0x00000ff0>,
> +};
> +
> +```
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> 2.31.1
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