[PATCH v3 0/5] Add support for T-HEAD C9xx PMU extensions
Heiko Stuebner
heiko at sntech.de
Thu Sep 8 06:42:37 PDT 2022
The T-HEAD C9XX cores implement functionality very similar to SSCOFPMF.
Instead of implementing a separate interface into SBI as done in v1,
we can add the C9XX tidbits with quite minimal overhead and leaverage
the existing SBI pmu interface including giving access to the firmware
counters.
The current only hickup is the detection override in sbi_hart, where
I still need to find out why the MHPMCOUNTERs are not writeable
at _that_ point of the boot, but with this series on top of openSBI 1.1
and the matching kernel perf patch I get reasonable results for example
for:
perf stat -e cycles -e instructions -e L1-icache-load-misses -e L1-icache-loads ls
Performance counter stats for 'ls':
17119496 cycles
2867765 instructions # 0.17 insn per cycle
55929 L1-icache-load-misses # 1.61% of all L1-icache accesses
3467346 L1-icache-loads
0.030156216 seconds time elapsed
0.000000000 seconds user
0.023496000 seconds sys
changes in v3:
- follow Atish's advice and implement an abstraction
to not pollute the core pmu with cpu-specific variants
changes in v2:
- don't implement a separate interface but instead modify
the sbi-pmu to allow the c9xx to use standard pmu interface
Heiko Stuebner (5):
lib: sbi: do platform-specific extension population earlier
lib: sbi_pmu: move pmu irq information into pmu itself
lib: sbi_pmu: add ability to override methods on non-standard
platforms
platform: generic: add extensions_init handler and platform-override
platform: generic: allwinner: add support for c9xx pmu
include/sbi/sbi_pmu.h | 16 +++
lib/sbi/sbi_hart.c | 21 ++-
lib/sbi/sbi_pmu.c | 31 +++++
platform/generic/allwinner/sun20i-d1.c | 76 +++++++++++
platform/generic/include/platform_override.h | 1 +
platform/generic/include/thead_c9xx.h | 127 +++++++++++++++++++
platform/generic/platform.c | 9 ++
7 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 platform/generic/include/thead_c9xx.h
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2.35.1
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