linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Add support for PowerPC Hypervisor supplied performance counters

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <1390354379.11104.3.camel@concordia>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:32:59 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Linux PPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Add support for PowerPC Hypervisor supplied
 performance counters

On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 15:53 -0800, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> These patches add basic pmus for 2 powerpc hypervisor interfaces to obtain
> performance counters: gpci ("get performance counter info") and 24x7.
> 
> The counters supplied by these interfaces are continually counting and never
> need to be (and cannot be) disabled or enabled. They additionally do not
> generate any interrupts. This makes them in some regards similar to software
> counters, and as a result their implimentation shares some common code (which
> an initial patch exposes) with the sw counters.

Hi Cody,

Can you please add some more explanation of this series.

In particular why do we need two new PMUs, and how do they relate to each
other?

And can you add an example of how I'd actually use them using perf.

cheers


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/