linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 9/9] Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU

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Message-ID: <20250829101427.2557899-10-wangyushan12@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:14:27 +0800
From: Yushan Wang <wangyushan12@...wei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 9/9] Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU

Some of HiSilicon V3 PMU hardware is divided into parts to fulfill the
job of monitoring specific parts of a device.  Add description on that
as well as the newly added ext option for L3C PMU.

Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yushan Wang <wangyushan12@...wei.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
index a307bce2f5c5..b78381a1e5e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pmu.rst
@@ -113,6 +113,39 @@ uring channel. It is 2 bits. Some important codes are as follows:
 - 2'b00: default value, count the events which sent to the both uring and
   uring_ext channel;
 
+For HiSilicon uncore PMU v3 whose identifier is 0x40, some uncore PMUs are
+further divided into parts for finer granularity of tracing, each part has its
+own dedicated PMU, and all such PMUs together cover the monitoring job of events
+on particular uncore device. Such PMUs are described in sysfs with name format
+slightly changed::
+
+/sys/bus/event_source/devices/hisi_sccl{X}_<l3c{Y}_{Z}/ddrc{Y}_{Z}/noc{Y}_{Z}>
+
+Z is the sub-id, indicating different PMUs for part of hardware device.
+
+Usage of most PMUs with different sub-ids are identical. Specially, L3C PMU
+provides ``ext`` option to allow exploration of even finer granual statistics
+of L3C PMU.  L3C PMU driver uses that as hint of termination when delivering
+perf command to hardware:
+
+- ext=0: Default, could be used with event names.
+- ext=1 and ext=2: Must be used with event codes, event names are not supported.
+
+An example of perf command could be::
+
+  $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl0_l3c1_0/rd_spipe/ sleep 5
+
+or::
+
+  $# perf stat -a -e hisi_sccl0_l3c1_0/event=0x1,ext=1/ sleep 5
+
+As above, ``hisi_sccl0_l3c1_0`` locates PMU of Super CPU CLuster 0, L3 cache 1
+pipe0.
+
+First command locates the first part of L3C since ``ext=0`` is implied by
+default. Second command issues the counting on another part of L3C with the
+event ``0x1``.
+
 Users could configure IDs to count data come from specific CCL/ICL, by setting
 srcid_cmd & srcid_msk, and data desitined for specific CCL/ICL by setting
 tgtid_cmd & tgtid_msk. A set bit in srcid_msk/tgtid_msk means the PMU will not
-- 
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