From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: oprofile and ARM A9 hardware counter Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 14:49:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20120511134920.GC2626@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <4FA9588E.9020906@ti.com> <87sjfal65t.fsf@ti.com> <4FAA4DB9.8060504@ti.com> <4FAAB1A3.9040806@ti.com> <4FAAC549.6010206@ti.com> <4FAAE564.6040708@ti.com> <20120510084422.GB27276@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <4FAC0F05.3060803@ti.com> <20120511122547.GE17453@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> <4FAD1865.70003@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:40702 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751647Ab2EKNtt (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 May 2012 09:49:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FAD1865.70003@ti.com> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Hunter Cc: "Cousson, Benoit" , Kevin Hilman , Paul Walmsley , Ming Lei , Maynard Johnson , "Shilimkar, Santosh" , "oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net" , Lik Lik , "eranian@gmail.com" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:47:17PM +0100, Jon Hunter wrote: > On 05/11/2012 07:25 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > I figured I may as well take perf for a spin and see how I got on. The good > > news is that the hwmod bits all seem to work as before and the correct IRQs > > are requested: > > > > root@florentine-pogen:~# cat /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 CPU1 > > 29: 44527 17916 GIC twd > > 33: 0 0 GIC arm-pmu > > 34: 0 0 GIC arm-pmu > > > > But, unfortunately, as you can see from the above, I just can't persuade them > > to fire. The PMU counters do tick, but they happily increment through zero > > without us realising. I retested with my perf/omap4 branch to make sure my > > board is ok, and the irqs do fire there. > > > > Any ideas? > > Do you disable OMAP2/3 support in the kernel config, so that CPU_HAS_PMU > is enabled? I enabled OMAP3 debug peripherals, so I selected CPU_HAS_PMU that way. Will