2023-11-21 10:16:49

by Suzuki K Poulose

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] arm64: perf: Include threshold control fields in PMEVTYPER mask

On 13/11/2023 11:25, James Clark wrote:
> FEAT_PMUv3_TH (Armv8.8) adds two new fields to PMEVTYPER, so include
> them in the mask. These aren't writable on 32 bit kernels as they are in
> the high part of the register, so only include them for arm64.
>
> It would be difficult to do this statically in the asm header files for
> each platform without resulting in circular includes or #ifdefs inline
> in the code. For that reason the ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_MASK definition has
> been removed and the mask is constructed programmatically.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <[email protected]>


> ---
> drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c | 9 ++++++++-
> include/linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h | 3 ++-
> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
> index 6ca7be05229c..1d40d794f5e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmuv3.c
> @@ -555,8 +555,15 @@ static void armv8pmu_write_counter(struct perf_event *event, u64 value)
> static inline void armv8pmu_write_evtype(int idx, u32 val)
> {
> u32 counter = ARMV8_IDX_TO_COUNTER(idx);
> + unsigned long mask = ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_EVENT |
> + ARMV8_PMU_INCLUDE_EL2 |
> + ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL0 |
> + ARMV8_PMU_EXCLUDE_EL1;
>
> - val &= ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_MASK;
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64))
> + mask |= ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_TC | ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_TH;
> +
> + val &= mask;
> write_pmevtypern(counter, val);
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h
> index 9c226adf938a..ddd1fec86739 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmuv3.h
> @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@
> /*
> * PMXEVTYPER: Event selection reg
> */
> -#define ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_MASK 0xc800ffff /* Mask for writable bits */
> +#define ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_TH GENMASK(43, 32)
> +#define ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_TC GENMASK(63, 61)
> #define ARMV8_PMU_EVTYPE_EVENT 0xffff /* Mask for EVENT bits */
>
> /*