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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Add hip08 implementation defined PMU core events
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On 17/10/2017 13:59, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Shaokun,
>
> Thanks for the patch. One comment below.
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 03:01:39PM +0800, Shaokun Zhang wrote:
>> This is a short list of useful implementation defined PMU events of
>> hip08, other supported events are not listed in this JSON file.
>>
>> This patch is dependent on Cavium's patch-v9 (Add support for
>> ThunderX2 pmu events using json files), Link:
>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg611895.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
>> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
>> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> .../arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08-imp-def.json | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv | 1 +
>> 2 files changed, 177 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08-imp-def.json
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08-imp-def.json b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08-imp-def.json
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..6bb31da
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/hisilicon/hip08-imp-def.json
>> @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
>> +[
>> + {
>> + "PublicDescription": "Attributable Level 1 data cache access, read",
>> + "EventCode": "0x40",
>> + "EventName": "L1D_CACHE_RD",
>> + "BriefDescription": "L1D cache access, read",
>> + },
>> + {
>> + "PublicDescription": "Attributable Level 1 data cache access, write",
>> + "EventCode": "0x41",
>> + "EventName": "L1D_CACHE_WR",
>> + "BriefDescription": "L1D cache access, write",
>> + },
>
> So these are the same as the events in cavium/thunderx2-imp-def.json and
> should be factored out. In fact, ARM recommends event numbers for 0x40-0xBF,
> so the best thing would be to have those defined in their own file, then
> have a way for the various CPU-specific .json files to pick and chose the
> events they need from there.

Right, this seems reasonable. Just need to check on feasible.

In terms of coordinating this work, shall we do it? Will arm64+ThunderX
support be accepted as is?

Thanks,
John

>
> Will
>
> .
>


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