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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, ak@linux.intel.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, robin.murphy@arm.com, linuxarm@huawei.com,
	acme@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, james.clark@arm.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
	jolsa@redhat.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/7] perf pmu-events: Support event aliasing for system PMUs
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:57:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200218125707.GB20212@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1579876505-113251-1-git-send-email-john.garry@huawei.com>

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:34:58PM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> Currently event aliasing for only CPU and uncore PMUs is supported. In
> fact, only uncore PMUs aliasing for when the uncore PMUs are fixed for a
> CPU is supported, which may not always be the case for certain
> architectures.
> 
> This series adds support for PMU event aliasing for system and other
> uncore PMUs which are not fixed to a specific CPU.
> 
> For this, we introduce support for another per-arch mapfile, which maps a
> particular system identifier to a set of system PMU events for that
> system. This is much the same as what we do for CPU event aliasing.
> 
> To support this, we need to change how we match a PMU to a mapfile,
> whether it should use a CPU or system mapfile. For this we do the
> following:
> 
> - For CPU PMU, we always match for the event mapfile based on the CPUID.
>   This has not changed.
> 
> - For an uncore or system PMU, we match first based on the SYSID (if set).
>   If this fails, then we match on the CPUID.
> 
>   This works for x86, as x86 would not have any system mapfiles for uncore
>   PMUs (and match on the CPUID).
> 
> Initial reference support is also added for ARM SMMUv3 PMCG (Performance
> Monitor Event Group) PMU for HiSilicon hip08 platform with only a single
> event so far - see driver in drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c for that driver.

Why don't we just expose SMMU_IIDR in the SMMUv3 PMU directory, so that
you can key off that? I'm nervous about coming up with a global "SYSID"
when we don't have the ability to standardise anything in that space.

Will

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-24 14:34 [PATCH RFC 0/7] perf pmu-events: Support event aliasing for system PMUs John Garry
2020-01-24 14:34 ` [PATCH RFC 1/7] perf jevents: Add support for an extra directory level John Garry
2020-02-10 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 15:47     ` John Garry
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 2/7] perf vendor events arm64: Relocate hip08 core events John Garry
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 3/7] perf jevents: Add support for a system events PMU John Garry
2020-02-10 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 15:55     ` John Garry
2020-02-11 14:46       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 4/7] perf pmu: Rename uncore symbols to include system PMUs John Garry
2020-02-10 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 15:44     ` John Garry
2020-02-11 14:43       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-11 15:36         ` John Garry
2020-02-12 12:08           ` Jiri Olsa
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 5/7] perf pmu: Support matching by sysid John Garry
2020-02-10 12:07   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-10 16:22     ` John Garry
2020-02-11 13:47       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-11 15:07         ` John Garry
2020-02-12 10:08           ` John Garry
2020-02-12 12:16             ` Jiri Olsa
2020-02-12 12:24               ` John Garry
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 6/7] perf vendor events arm64: Relocate uncore events for hip08 John Garry
2020-01-24 14:35 ` [PATCH RFC 7/7] perf vendor events arm64: Add hip08 SMMUv3 PMCG IMP DEF events John Garry
2020-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH RFC 0/7] perf pmu-events: Support event aliasing for system PMUs James Clark
2020-02-11 15:41   ` John Garry
2020-02-18 12:57 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-02-18 13:24   ` John Garry
2020-02-18 13:39     ` Will Deacon
2020-02-18 16:19       ` John Garry
2020-02-18 17:08         ` Mark Rutland
2020-02-18 17:58           ` John Garry
2020-02-18 18:13             ` Mark Rutland
2020-02-19  1:55               ` Joakim Zhang
2020-02-19  8:44                 ` John Garry
2020-02-19 12:40                   ` Joakim Zhang
2020-02-19 14:28                     ` John Garry
2020-02-19  8:50               ` John Garry

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