The event selection mask for ARMv7 cores [ARMV7_EVTSEL_MASK]
is incorrectly set to 0x7f. This means that the top bit of an
event ID is ignored, so counting branch misses (id=0x10) and
ISBs (id=0x90) give the same results.
This patch sets the event selection mask to the correct value
of 0xff.
Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If IRQ balancing is used on a multicore ARM system, PMU interrupt
lines may be relocated onto CPUs other than the one causing the
counter overflow. This can result in misattribution of events to
the wrong core and, in the case that the CPU handling the interrupt
has not experience counter overflow, the interrupt can be disabled
because the handler returns IRQ_NONE.
This patch adds the IRQF_NOBALANCING flag to the request_irq call
in perf_events.c.
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Adds the Performance Events support for ARMv7 processor, using
the PMNC unit in HW.
Supports the following:
- Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors,
- dynamic detection of the number of available counters,
based on the PMCR value,
- runtime detection of the CPU arch (v6 or v7)
and model (Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9)
Tested on OMAP3 (Cortex-A8) only.
Signed-off-by: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch implements support for ARMv6 performance counters in the
Linux performance events subsystem. ARMv6 architectures that have the
performance counters should enable HW_PERF_EVENTS to get hardware
performance events support in addition to the software events.
Note: only ARM Ltd ARM cores are supported.
This implementation also provides an ARM PMU abstraction layer to allow
ARMv7 and others to be supported in the future by adding new a
'struct arm_pmu'.
Cc: Jean Pihet <jpihet@mvista.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
