Message ID | 20220208185604.1097957-1-maz@kernel.org |
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Headers | show |
Series | drivers/perf: CPU PMU driver for Apple M1 | expand |
On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:55:54 +0000, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote: > > The M1 SoC embeds a per-CPU PMU that has a very different programming > interface compared to the architected PMUv3 that is normally present > on standard implementations. > > This small series adds a driver for this HW by leveraging the arm_pmu > infrastructure, resulting in a rather simple driver. > > Of course, we know next to nothing about the actual events this PMU > counts, aside from CPU cycles and instructions. Everything else is > undocumented (though as Dougall pointed out, someone could extract the > relevant information from a macOS install if they wanted -- I don't). > I'm looking at allowing the perf userspace tool to load the event > descriptions at runtime, which would probably help. [...] FWIW, I have created two branches: - [1] has the full series - [2] has the irqchip/DT prefix of [1] Both branches are stable, and I expect [2] to be used as a shared branch between the irqchip and perf trees. Thanks, M. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=hack/m1-pmu [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=irq/aic-pmu
On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 03:55:44PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:55:54 +0000, > Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > The M1 SoC embeds a per-CPU PMU that has a very different programming > > interface compared to the architected PMUv3 that is normally present > > on standard implementations. > > > > This small series adds a driver for this HW by leveraging the arm_pmu > > infrastructure, resulting in a rather simple driver. > > > > Of course, we know next to nothing about the actual events this PMU > > counts, aside from CPU cycles and instructions. Everything else is > > undocumented (though as Dougall pointed out, someone could extract the > > relevant information from a macOS install if they wanted -- I don't). > > I'm looking at allowing the perf userspace tool to load the event > > descriptions at runtime, which would probably help. > > [...] > > FWIW, I have created two branches: > > - [1] has the full series > - [2] has the irqchip/DT prefix of [1] > > Both branches are stable, and I expect [2] to be used as a shared > branch between the irqchip and perf trees. Cheers, I've picked this up in the arm64 tree (by pulling [2] and applying the two extra patches from [1] on top) here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/perf-m1 Will