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| author | Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> | 2016-04-26 11:33:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-05-05 10:13:59 +0200 |
| commit | 5101ef20f0ef1de79091a1fdb6b1a7f07565545a (patch) | |
| tree | e258e92de18196699b547763bed143d74e812387 /include/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | 6e855cd4f4b5258016cf707f94f96bfa51c32f32 (diff) | |
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perf/arm: Special-case hetereogeneous CPUs
Commit:
26657848502b7847 ("perf/core: Verify we have a single perf_hw_context PMU")
forcefully prevents multiple PMUs from sharing perf_hw_context, as this
generally doesn't make sense. It is a common bug for uncore PMUs to
use perf_hw_context rather than perf_invalid_context, which this detects.
However, systems exist with heterogeneous CPUs (and hence heterogeneous
HW PMUs), for which sharing perf_hw_context is necessary, and possible
in some limited cases.
To make this work we have to perform some gymnastics, as we did in these
commits:
66eb579e66ecfea5 ("perf: allow for PMU-specific event filtering")
c904e32a69b7c779 ("arm: perf: filter unschedulable events")
To allow those systems to work, we must allow PMUs for heterogeneous
CPUs to share perf_hw_context, though we must still disallow sharing
otherwise to detect the common misuse of perf_hw_context.
This patch adds a new PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS for this, updates
the core logic to account for this, and makes use of it in the arm_pmu
code that is used for systems with heterogeneous CPUs. Comments are
added to make the rationale clear and hopefully avoid accidental abuse.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426103346.GA20836@leverpostej
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h index c77e4a159fa2..9e1c3ada91c4 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h @@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ struct perf_event; #define PERF_PMU_CAP_AUX_SW_DOUBLEBUF 0x08 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE 0x10 #define PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE 0x20 +#define PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS 0x40 /** * struct pmu - generic performance monitoring unit |