linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/5] perf: arm_spe: Add format option for discard mode

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Message-Id: <20250108142904.401139-1-james.clark@linaro.org>
Date: Wed,  8 Jan 2025 14:28:55 +0000
From: James Clark <james.clark@...aro.org>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/5] perf: arm_spe: Add format option for discard mode

Discard mode (Armv8.6) is a way to enable SPE related PMU events without
the overhead of recording any data. Add a format option, tests and docs
for it.

In theory we could make the driver drop calls to allocate the aux buffer
when discard mode is enabled. This would give a small memory saving,
but I think there is potential to interfere with any tools that don't
expect this so I left the aux allocation untouched. Even old tools that
don't know about discard mode will be able to use it because we publish
the format option. Not allocating the aux buffer will have to be added
to tools which I've done in Perf.

Tested on the FVP with SAMPLE_FEED_OP (0x812D):

 $ perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/event=0x812D/ -- true

 Performance counter stats for 'true':

                 0      armv8_pmuv3/event=0x812D/

 $ perf record -e arm_spe/discard/ -a -N -B --no-bpf-event -o - > /dev/null &
 $ perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/event=0x812D/ -- true

  Performance counter stats for 'true':

             17350      armv8_pmuv3/event=0x812D/

Changes since v2:
  * Use existing SPE_PMU_FEAT_* mechanism (Will)

Changes since v1:
  * Add a new section and some clarifications about the PMU events to
    the docs. (Ian)

Applies to v6.13-rc6

James Clark (5):
  perf: arm_spe: Add format option for discard mode
  perf docs: arm_spe: Document new discard mode
  perf tool: arm-spe: Pull out functions for aux buffer and tracking
    setup
  perf tool: arm-spe: Don't allocate buffer or tracking event in discard
    mode
  perf test: arm_spe: Add test for discard mode

 drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c                | 22 ++++++
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-arm-spe.txt | 26 +++++++
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arm-spe.c      | 90 +++++++++++++++--------
 tools/perf/tests/shell/test_arm_spe.sh    | 30 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

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