linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Add hip08 implementation defined PMU core events

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Date:   Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:59:26 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com,
        jonathan.cameron@...wei.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>,
        John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf vendor events arm64: Add hip08 implementation
 defined PMU core events

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@...ilicon.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com>
> Cc: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.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.

Will