linux/tools
Nickhu ebd09753b5 nds32: Perf porting
This is the commit that porting the perf for nds32.

1.Raw event:
	The raw events start with 'r'.
		Usage:
			perf stat -e rXYZ ./app
			X: the index of performance counter.
			YZ: the index(convert to hexdecimal) of events

		Example:
			'perf stat -e r101 ./app' means the counter 1 will count the instruction
		event.

		The index of counter and events can be found in
		"Andes System Privilege Architecture Version 3 Manual".

Or you can perform the 'perf list' to find the symbolic name of raw events.

2.Perf mmap2:

	Fix unexpected perf mmap2() page fault

	When the mmap2() called by perf application,
	you will encounter such condition:"failed to write."
	With return value -EFAULT

	This is due to the page fault caused by "reading" buffer
	from the mapped legal address region to write to the descriptor.
	The page_fault handler will get a VM_FAULT_SIGBUS return value,
	which should not happens here.(Due to this is a read request.)

	You can refer to kernel/events/core.c:perf_mmap_fault(...)
	If "(vmf->pgoff && (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))" is evaluated
	as true, you will get VM_FAULT_SIGBUS as return value.

	However, this is not an write request. The flags which indicated
	why the page fault happens is wrong.

	Furthermore, NDS32 SPAv3 is not able to detect it is read or write.
	It only know  either it is instruction fetch or data access.

	Therefore, by removing the wrong flag assignment(actually, the hardware
	is not able to show the reason), we can fix this bug.

3.Perf multiple events map to same counter.

	When there are multiple events map to the same counter, the counter
	counts inaccurately. This is because each counter only counts one event
	in the same time.
	So when there are multiple events map to same counter, they have to take
	turns in each context.

	There are two solution:
	1. Print the error message when multiple events map to the same counter.
	But print the error message would let the program hang in loop. The ltp
	(linux test program) would be failed when the program hang in loop.

	2. Don't print the error message, the ltp would pass. But the user need to
	have the knowledge that don't count the events which map to the same
	counter, or the user will get the inaccurate results.

	We choose method 2 for the solution

Signed-off-by: Nickhu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu <greentime@andestech.com>
2018-11-06 18:01:40 +08:00
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accounting delayacct: track delays from thrashing cache pages 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
arch tools headers: Sync the various kvm.h header copies 2018-10-31 09:57:53 -03:00
bpf tools: bpftool: fix completion for "bpftool map update" 2018-10-21 20:45:14 +02:00
build Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
cgroup tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
crypto crypto: tools - Add cryptostat userspace 2018-09-28 12:46:26 +08:00
firewire
gpio Linux 4.16-rc5 2018-03-18 17:48:59 +01:00
hv tools: hv: fcopy: set 'error' in case an unknown operation was requested 2018-09-30 08:49:55 -07:00
iio iio: Add modifier for DUV light 2018-07-23 19:18:10 +01:00
include nds32: Perf porting 2018-11-06 18:01:40 +08:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: cut down decimal places in update interval dialog 2018-10-01 15:40:59 +02:00
laptop tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
leds tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-11-03 18:13:43 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations 2018-10-02 10:28:04 +02:00
nfsd
objtool Merge branch 'core/urgent' into x86/urgent, to pick up objtool fix 2018-11-03 23:42:16 +01:00
pci tools: PCI: Change pcitest compiling process 2018-10-03 11:19:52 +01:00
pcmcia
perf nds32: Perf porting 2018-11-06 18:01:40 +08:00
power Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 16:16:40 +01:00
scripts Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make 2018-04-11 00:03:02 +09:00
spi spi: spidev_test: Improve decoded text part of hex dump 2018-09-04 17:00:37 +01:00
testing powerpc fixes for 4.20 #2 2018-11-02 09:19:35 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault 2018-03-27 09:51:23 +02:00
time
usb usbip: tools: fix atoi() on non-null terminated string 2018-10-18 19:44:39 +02:00
virtio tools/virtio: add kmalloc_array stub 2018-07-27 16:54:40 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "defined but not used" warning 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
wmi tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
Makefile tools: PCI: Change pcitest compiling process 2018-10-03 11:19:52 +01:00