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From: ashwinc@codeaurora.org (Ashwin Chaugule)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] ARM: perf: add mode exclusion for Cortex-A15 PMU
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:09:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E55BCD9.7050703@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKHPGBZ1eXzhsjFvLt_KTYKsR_OH7rgbeSGedTY5g8dhi90uzQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Will,

> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> 
> The Cortex-A15 PMU implements the PMUv2 specification and therefore
> has support for some mode exclusion.
> 
> This patch adds support for excluding user, kernel and hypervisor counts
> from a given event.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> ---


--8<---

> +
> +/*
> + * Event filters for PMUv2
> + */
> +#define        ARMV7_EXCLUDE_PL1       (1 << 31)
> +#define        ARMV7_EXCLUDE_USER      (1 << 30)
> +#define        ARMV7_INCLUDE_HYP       (1 << 27)
> +

This mode exclusion stuff is confusing me.
For exclude user mode, shouldn't PMXEVTYPER[PL1,U] = 0b11

With this patch the counters will spin with secure mode activity as well,
if exclude user mode is selected ?

/me goes to bother the h/w guys.

-- 
Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-25  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-08 17:16 [PATCH 00/10] ARM: perf: updates for 3.2 Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 01/10] ARM: perf: de-const struct arm_pmu Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 02/10] ARM: PMU: move CPU PMU platform device handling and init into perf Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 03/10] ARM: perf: use cpumask_t to record active IRQs Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 04/10] ARM: perf: use u32 instead of unsigned long for PMNC register Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 05/10] ARM: perf: use integers for ARMv7 event indices Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 06/10] ARM: perf: index ARMv7 event counters starting from zero Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 07/10] ARM: perf: index Xscale and ARMv6 " Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 08/10] ARM: perf: index PMU registers " Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 09/10] ARM: perf: allow armpmu to implement mode exclusion Will Deacon
2011-08-08 17:16 ` [PATCH 10/10] ARM: perf: add mode exclusion for Cortex-A15 PMU Will Deacon
     [not found]   ` <CAKHPGBZ1eXzhsjFvLt_KTYKsR_OH7rgbeSGedTY5g8dhi90uzQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-08-25  3:09     ` Ashwin Chaugule [this message]
2011-08-25  9:51       ` Will Deacon
2011-08-09  9:35 ` [PATCH 00/10] ARM: perf: updates for 3.2 Jamie Iles
2011-08-09  9:42   ` Will Deacon
2011-08-09  9:54     ` Jamie Iles
2011-08-09 10:01       ` Will Deacon
2011-08-09 10:14         ` Jean Pihet
2011-08-09 10:52           ` Will Deacon

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