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authorPratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>2017-07-01 12:03:35 +0530
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-08-08 14:33:13 +0100
commit1031a1592908ccd3240f4a5731c96c382c932310 (patch)
treedc0cae0b5281438118b5a0c16bd244e9f5e1d400
parentaae4e7a8bc44722fe70d58920a36916b1043195e (diff)
arm64: perf: Allow more than one cycle counter to be used
Currently: $ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true Performance counter stats for 'true': 2,24,699 cycles:u <not counted> cycles:k (0.00%) 0.000788087 seconds time elapsed We can not count more than one cycle counter in one instance,because we allow to map cycle counter into PMCCNTR_EL0 only. However, if I did not miss anything then specification do not prohibit to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0 for cycle count as well. Modify the code so that it still prefers to use PMCCNTR_EL0 for cycle counter, however allow to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0 if PMCCNTR_EL0 is already in use. After this patch: $ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true Performance counter stats for 'true': 2,17,310 cycles:u 7,40,009 cycles:k 0.000764149 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
index b5798ba21189..372317667773 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -846,17 +846,14 @@ static int armv8pmu_get_event_idx(struct pmu_hw_events *cpuc,
struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw;
unsigned long evtype = hwc->config_base & ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_EVENT;
- /* Always place a cycle counter into the cycle counter. */
+ /* Always prefer to place a cycle counter into the cycle counter. */
if (evtype == ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_CPU_CYCLES) {
- if (test_and_set_bit(ARMV8_IDX_CYCLE_COUNTER, cpuc->used_mask))
- return -EAGAIN;
-
- return ARMV8_IDX_CYCLE_COUNTER;
+ if (!test_and_set_bit(ARMV8_IDX_CYCLE_COUNTER, cpuc->used_mask))
+ return ARMV8_IDX_CYCLE_COUNTER;
}
/*
- * For anything other than a cycle counter, try and use
- * the events counters
+ * Otherwise use events counters
*/
for (idx = ARMV8_IDX_COUNTER0; idx < cpu_pmu->num_events; ++idx) {
if (!test_and_set_bit(idx, cpuc->used_mask))