[PATCH v2 0/5] Reorg ppc64 pmu insn counting

[Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>]

Hi,

This is the v2 of Richard's work sent in [1]. The initial implementation
presented some issues with the event-based branch kernel tests that I
fixed in this new version. This code is now passing all EBB PPC64
tests, it makes Avocado happy and it's all contained in the C helper.

Last patch is an improvement that became natural to do after seeing
how Richard updates env->hflags in pmu_update_summaries().

Avocado test performance:

 (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv8: PASS (32.63 s)
 (1/1) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_ppc_powernv9: PASS (34.16 s)

Changes from v1:
- patch 1:
  * fixed a couple of minor that was causing test failures
- patch 2 and 3: unchanged
- patch 4 (new):
  * clear HFLAGS_INSN_CNT if MMCR0_FC is set
- patch 5 (new):
  * avoid calling hreg_compute_hflags()
- v1 link: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-12/msg04013.html

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-12/msg04013.html


Daniel Henrique Barboza (2):
  target/ppc: keep ins_cnt/cyc_cnt cleared if MMCR0_FC is set
  target/ppc: do not call hreg_compute_hflags() in helper_store_mmcr0()

Richard Henderson (3):
  target/ppc: Cache per-pmc insn and cycle count settings
  target/ppc: Rewrite pmu_increment_insns
  target/ppc: Use env->pnc_cyc_cnt

 target/ppc/cpu.h         |   3 +
 target/ppc/cpu_init.c    |   1 +
 target/ppc/helper_regs.c |   2 +-
 target/ppc/machine.c     |   2 +
 target/ppc/power8-pmu.c  | 238 +++++++++++++++++----------------------
 target/ppc/power8-pmu.h  |  14 +--
 6 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)

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