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Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:31:37 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm_pmu: Add PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE capability
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To:     James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>,
        linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, irogers@google.com
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
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On 7/10/23 17:51, James Clark wrote:
> This capability gives us the ability to open PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and
> PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events on a specific PMU for free. All the
> implementation is contained in the Perf core and tool code so no change
> to the Arm PMU driver is needed.
> 
> The following basic use case now results in Perf opening the event on
> all PMUs rather than picking only one in an unpredictable way:
> 
>   $ perf stat -e cycles -- taskset --cpu-list 0,1 stress -c 2
> 
>    Performance counter stats for 'taskset --cpu-list 0,1 stress -c 2':
> 
>          963279620      armv8_cortex_a57/cycles/                (99.19%)
>          752745657      armv8_cortex_a53/cycles/                (94.80%)
> 
> Fixes: 55bcf6ef314a ("perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE")
> Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> index 277e29fbd504..d8844a9461a2 100644
> --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
> @@ -875,8 +875,13 @@ struct arm_pmu *armpmu_alloc(void)
>  		 * configuration (e.g. big.LITTLE). This is not an uncore PMU,
>  		 * and we have taken ctx sharing into account (e.g. with our
>  		 * pmu::filter callback and pmu::event_init group validation).
> +		 *
> +		 * PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE is required to open the legacy

s/legacy/generic ? These hardware events are still around.

> +		 * PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events on a
> +		 * specific PMU.
>  		 */
> -		.capabilities	= PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS | PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS,
> +		.capabilities	= PERF_PMU_CAP_HETEROGENEOUS_CPUS | PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_REGS |
> +				  PERF_PMU_CAP_EXTENDED_HW_TYPE,
>  	};
>  
>  	pmu->attr_groups[ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_COMMON] =