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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/9] arm64: perf: Enable pmu counter direct access for perf event on armv8
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:15:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201119191515.GA4906@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201113180633.GE44988@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 06:06:33PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > +static void armv8pmu_event_unmapped(struct perf_event *event, struct mm_struct *mm)
> > +{
> > +	if (!(event->hw.flags & ARMPMU_EL0_RD_CNTR))
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->context.pmu_direct_access))
> > +		on_each_cpu_mask(mm_cpumask(mm), refresh_pmuserenr, NULL, 1);
> > +}
> 
> I didn't think we kept our mm_cpumask() up-to-date in all cases on
> arm64, so I'm not sure we can use it like this.
> 
> Will, can you confirm either way?

We don't update mm_cpumask() as the cost of the atomic showed up in some
benchmarks I did years ago and we've never had any need for the thing anyway
because out TLB invalidation is one or all.

Will

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 14:01 [PATCH v4 0/9] libperf and arm64 userspace counter access support Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] arm64: pmu: Add function implementation to update event index in userpage Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] arm64: perf: Enable pmu counter direct access for perf event on armv8 Rob Herring
2020-11-13 18:06   ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-19 18:35     ` Rob Herring
2020-11-19 19:15     ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-11-20 20:03       ` Rob Herring
2020-11-20 22:08         ` Rob Herring
2020-12-02 14:57         ` Rob Herring
2021-01-07  0:17           ` Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] tools/include: Add an initial math64.h Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] libperf: Add libperf_evsel__mmap() Rob Herring
2020-10-14 11:05   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-16 21:39     ` Rob Herring
2020-10-19 20:15       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-20 14:38         ` Rob Herring
2020-10-20 15:35           ` Jiri Olsa
2020-10-20 17:11             ` Rob Herring
2020-10-21 11:24               ` Jiri Olsa
2020-11-05 16:19                 ` Rob Herring
2020-11-05 22:41                   ` Jiri Olsa
2020-11-06 21:56                     ` Rob Herring
2020-11-11 12:00                       ` Jiri Olsa
2020-11-11 14:50                         ` Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] libperf: tests: Add support for verbose printing Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] libperf: Add support for user space counter access Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] libperf: Add arm64 support to perf_mmap__read_self() Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] perf: arm64: Add test for userspace counter access on heterogeneous systems Rob Herring
2020-10-01 14:01 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] Documentation: arm64: Document PMU counters access from userspace Rob Herring

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