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    SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 09/10] drivers/perf: Add support for ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling Extension
    On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:02:39PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
    > On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:37:15 +0000
    > Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
    > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 04:04:19PM -0600, Kim Phillips wrote:
    > > > Also, curiously, arm_spe_pmu doesn't appear in 'perf list' (even when
    > > > SPE h/w is present).
    > >
    > > Weird, it would be nice to understand why that is. The sysfs plumbing should
    > > all be there, so I'd expect to see something. On my laptop, for example,
    > > intel_pt appears as:
    > >
    > > intel_pt// [Kernel PMU event]
    > >
    > > and strace show perf doing the following:
    > >
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 82
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/psb_period", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/noretcomp", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/tsc", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/cyc_thresh", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/mtc_period", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/cyc", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/format/mtc", O_RDONLY) = 83
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/events", 0x7ffe54eebb40) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/type", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/type", O_RDONLY) = 82
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/cpumask", 0x7ffe54eedd60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/cpus", 0x7ffe54eedd60) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/mtc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/mtc", O_RDONLY) = 82
    > > stat("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/psb_cyc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
    > > open("/sys/bus/event_source/devices/intel_pt/caps/psb_cyc", O_RDONLY) = 82
    > >
    > > What do you see for SPE?
    >
    > 2154 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}, 0) = 0
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 58
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/branch_filter", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/ts_enable", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/pa_enable", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/event_filter", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/load_filter", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/jitter", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/store_filter", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/format/min_latency", O_RDONLY) = 59
    > 2154 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/events", 0xffffcd6bb078, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
    > 2154 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/type", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/type", O_RDONLY) = 58
    > 2154 newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/cpumask", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}, 0) = 0
    > 2154 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_spe_pmu_0/cpumask", O_RDONLY) = 58
    >
    > they're identical up until /.../cpumask's stat, which exists on the
    > ARM SPE run (as opposed to the Intel run).

    From a quick look at the perf tool code, it looks like you need to ensure
    that pmu->selectable is set to true for SPE, since it doesn't advertise
    any events (the intel pt and coresight code does this already).

    Will

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