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From: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
To: will@kernel.org
Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] perf/arm-cmn: Make cycle counts less surprising
Date: Mon,  2 Sep 2024 18:52:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c47cfdc09e907b1d7753d142a7e659982cceb246.1725296395.git.robin.murphy@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1725296395.git.robin.murphy@arm.com>

By default, CMN has automatic clock-gating with the implication that
a DTC's cycle counter may not increment while the DTC is sufficiently
idle. Given that we may have up to 4 DTCs to choose from when scheduling
a cycles event, this may potentially lead to surprising results if
trying to measure metrics based on activity in a different DTC domain
from where cycles end up being counted. Furthermore, since the details
of internal clock gating are not documented, we can't even reason about
what "active" cycles for a DTC actually mean relative to the activity of
other nodes within the same nominal DTC domain.

Make the reasonable assumption that if the user wants to count cycles,
they almost certainly want to count all of the cycles, and disable clock
gating while a DTC's cycle counter is in use.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
---

v2: Expand commit message

---
 drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c b/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c
index 5b0edeb69394..2205c183ec1b 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@
 /* The DTC node is where the magic happens */
 #define CMN_DT_DTC_CTL			0x0a00
 #define CMN_DT_DTC_CTL_DT_EN		BIT(0)
+#define CMN_DT_DTC_CTL_CG_DISABLE	BIT(10)
 
 /* DTC counters are paired in 64-bit registers on a 16-byte stride. Yuck */
 #define _CMN_DT_CNT_REG(n)		((((n) / 2) * 4 + (n) % 2) * 4)
@@ -1546,9 +1547,12 @@ static void arm_cmn_event_start(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	int i;
 
 	if (type == CMN_TYPE_DTC) {
-		i = hw->dtc_idx[0];
-		writeq_relaxed(CMN_CC_INIT, cmn->dtc[i].base + CMN_DT_PMCCNTR);
-		cmn->dtc[i].cc_active = true;
+		struct arm_cmn_dtc *dtc = cmn->dtc + hw->dtc_idx[0];
+
+		writel_relaxed(CMN_DT_DTC_CTL_DT_EN | CMN_DT_DTC_CTL_CG_DISABLE,
+			       dtc->base + CMN_DT_DTC_CTL);
+		writeq_relaxed(CMN_CC_INIT, dtc->base + CMN_DT_PMCCNTR);
+		dtc->cc_active = true;
 	} else if (type == CMN_TYPE_WP) {
 		u64 val = CMN_EVENT_WP_VAL(event);
 		u64 mask = CMN_EVENT_WP_MASK(event);
@@ -1577,8 +1581,10 @@ static void arm_cmn_event_stop(struct perf_event *event, int flags)
 	int i;
 
 	if (type == CMN_TYPE_DTC) {
-		i = hw->dtc_idx[0];
-		cmn->dtc[i].cc_active = false;
+		struct arm_cmn_dtc *dtc = cmn->dtc + hw->dtc_idx[0];
+
+		dtc->cc_active = false;
+		writel_relaxed(CMN_DT_DTC_CTL_DT_EN, dtc->base + CMN_DT_DTC_CTL);
 	} else if (type == CMN_TYPE_WP) {
 		for_each_hw_dn(hw, dn, i) {
 			void __iomem *base = dn->pmu_base + CMN_DTM_OFFSET(hw->dtm_offset);
-- 
2.39.2.101.g768bb238c484.dirty



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-02 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-02 17:51 [PATCH v2 0/8] perf/arm-cmn: Fixes and updates Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] perf/arm-cmn: Refactor node ID handling. Again Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] perf/arm-cmn: Fix CCLA register offset Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] perf/arm-cmn: Ensure dtm_idx is big enough Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] perf/arm-cmn: Improve build-time assertion Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:52 ` Robin Murphy [this message]
2024-09-02 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] perf/arm-cmn: Refactor DTC PMU register access Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] dt-bindings: perf: arm-cmn: Add CMN S3 Robin Murphy
2024-09-02 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] perf/arm-cmn: Support " Robin Murphy
2024-09-04 16:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] perf/arm-cmn: Fixes and updates Will Deacon
2024-09-05  6:35 ` Ilkka Koskinen

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