linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Enable JSON events for ThunderX2 B0

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Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 11:34:15 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gklkml16@...il.com>
Cc:     William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>, mark.rutland@....com,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Robert Richter <Robert.Richter@...ium.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, jnair@...iumnetworks.com,
        Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Enable JSON events for
 ThunderX2 B0

Em Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 07:57:04PM +0530, Ganapatrao Kulkarni escreveu:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> can you please pull-in this patch?

So everybody is Ok with this? Can I have some Acked-by: from subject
matter experts?

- Arnaldo

> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gklkml16@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:01 AM, William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com> wrote:
> >> On 03/07/2018 12:35 PM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> >>> Hi Will Cohen,
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >>> <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
> >>>> Em Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:32:05AM -0500, William Cohen escreveu:
> >>>>> On 03/07/2018 06:08 AM, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> >>>>>> There is MIDR change on ThunderX2 B0, adding an entry to mapfile
> >>>>>> to enable JSON events for B0.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>
> >>>>
> >>>> Ganapatrao, can you please take this in consideration and if agreeing
> >>>> send a v2 patch?
> >>>>
> >>>> With that I can add an Acked-by: wcohen, Right?
> >>>>
> >>>> - Arnaldo
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>  tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv | 1 +
> >>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
> >>>>>> index e61c9ca..93c5d14 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
> >>>>>> +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/arm64/mapfile.csv
> >>>>>> @@ -13,4 +13,5 @@
> >>>>>>  #
> >>>>>>  #Family-model,Version,Filename,EventType
> >>>>>>  0x00000000420f5160,v1,cavium,core
> >>>>>> +0x00000000430f0af0,v1,cavium,core
> >>>>>>  0x00000000410fd03[[:xdigit:]],v1,cortex-a53,core
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>> Like the cortex-a53 the last digit '0' of the match for the MIDR should be replaced with [[:xdigit:]] to allow for possible future revisions of chip:
> >>>
> >>> for arm64 implementation,  bits 3:0(Revision) and bits 23:20(Variant)
> >>> are ignored/dont-care.
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing that out.  See the code masking out those bits in linux/toos/perf/arch/util/header.c. For the ppc64 it just copies the equivalent of the MIDR including the revision bits. Thus, the need for regular expression matching to avoid having to create a new entry for each revision.
> >
> > It is same for arm64 too, there is no need to add an entry for every
> > revision change,  need to add when part number changes.
> > This patch is not intended to add entry for revision change, the fact
> > of the matter is that, there  is complete MIDR change (vulcan to
> > thunderx2) in B0.
> > as per current arm64
> > implementation(.tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/header.c), it is not
> > required to have any dontcare marking in mapfile for revision/variant
> > bits.
> >
> > thanks
> > Ganapat
> >
> >>
> >> -Will
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 0x00000000430f0af[[:xdigit:]],v1,cavium,core
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Will Cohen
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>> Ganapat
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> linux-arm-kernel mailing list
> >>>> linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
> >>>> http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
> >>
> 
> thanks
> Ganapat

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