[PATCH 8/8] Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU

Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com
Thu Jul 31 05:47:59 PDT 2025


On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:38:23 +0800
Yushan Wang <wangyushan12 at huawei.com> wrote:

> Some of HiSilicon V3 PMU hardware is divided into parts to fulfill the
> job of monitoring specific parts of a device.  Add description on that
> as well as the newly added ext operand for L3C PMU.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yushan Wang <wangyushan12 at huawei.com>
There is one fixlet hiding in here that maybe could have been done
as a precursor.  I doubt anyone cares though!

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron at huawei.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst | 43 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
> index 48992a0b8e94..4c7584fe3c1a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
> @@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ The HiSilicon SoC encapsulates multiple CPU and IO dies. Each CPU cluster
>  called Super CPU cluster (SCCL) and is made up of 6 CCLs. Each SCCL has
>  two HHAs (0 - 1) and four DDRCs (0 - 3), respectively.
>  
> -HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU driver
> --------------------------------
> +HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU v1
> +---------------------------
>  
>  Each device PMU has separate registers for event counting, control and
>  interrupt, and the PMU driver shall register perf PMU drivers like L3C,
>  HHA and DDRC etc. The available events and configuration options shall
> -be described in the sysfs, see:
> +be described in the sysfs, see::
> +
> +/sys/bus/event_source/devices/hisi_sccl{X}_<l3c{Y}/hha{Y}/ddrc{Y}>
>  
> -/sys/bus/event_source/devices/hisi_sccl{X}_<l3c{Y}/hha{Y}/ddrc{Y}>.

This is fixing existing stuff so maybe should be a separate patch.

>  The "perf list" command shall list the available events from sysfs.
>  
>  Each L3C, HHA and DDRC is registered as a separate PMU with perf. The PMU




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