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From: jean.pihet@newoldbits.com (Jean Pihet)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Question on perf counter
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:39:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAORVsuWSis8-w_iB_2pgvs=ptkspjdXpENEb_AA3-hgAZivkkw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALU2kfkKzVkPgvhDbk_MuTwhi7Jyo1g6Na7+uwQG=CMq2uFq8g@mail.gmail.com>

Matt,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Mathew Li <mathew.li100@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a piece of kernel code (actually some assembly functions) on
> ARM-v8. I want to know how many cycles CPU is taking to execute them.
> I believe I could use performance counter for this job. So are there
> some APIs in kernel for performance counter for ARM-v8 which I could
> make use of?

The kernel has the profiling tools for that.
Perf has a lot of features that you need to experiment with. Cf.
https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/TOOLS/tracing-and-profiling-tools
and https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Tracing_and_Profiling for
detailed information and usage of perf, ftrace ...

Regards,
Jean

>
> Thanks!
> Matt
>
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-11  7:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11  1:07 Question on perf counter Mathew Li
2014-06-11  7:39 ` Jean Pihet [this message]

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