[PATCH 0/8] arm: perf: cleanups and initial refactoring

[cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington)]

Hi Mark,

On 07/01/2014 11:11 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> While reorganising the ARM perf backend to provide support for
> heterogeneous PMUs in big.LITTLE systems, I encountered a couple of
> issues requiring some preparatory work in addition to some opportunities
> for general cleanup in the backend. This series consists of those
> initial cleanups.
> 
> Currently the event mapping code in the ARM perf backend requires
> multi-dimensional tables to map from common event encodings to raw
> hardware values, where empty slots must be initialised to non-zero
> values. The current way of organising this results in very large support
> files which we can simplify with some macro use to remove a few hundred
> lines and make things more legible.
> 
> The PMU naming is somewhat of a mess, with most names not being
> supported by the perf tool. Given that no-one has complained, it seems
> that the PMUs are not being accessed by name in a perf context, and we
> can fix these to be consistent and usable with current tools. We update
> the OProfile name mangling to ensure that OProfile (which accesses the
> PMUs in its own namespace) are not adversely affected.
> 
> To prepare for reorganisation of the PMU probing code, new
> platform_device_id values are added to allow ARMv6, ARMv7, and XScale
> PMU platform_devices to be distinguished.

I ran Vince Weaver's perf events test suite [1] against a kernel with these
patches applied on an 8074 Dragonboard [2] and didn't see any regressions. The
patches also look good to me.

Tested-by: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>

1. https://github.com/deater/perf_event_tests
2. http://elinux.org/Dragonboard/APQ8074

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