[PATCH v2 6/6] powerpc/perf: Add restrictions to PMC5 in power9 DD1

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Feb 13 04:03:15 AEDT 2017


PMC5 on POWER9 DD1 may not provide right counts in all
sampling scenarios, hence use PM_INST_DISP event instead
in PMC2 or PMC3 in preference.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Changelog v1:
No changes, just a rebase

 arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h | 4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h b/arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h
index 3e9150f6690a..cf9bd8990159 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/isa207-common.h
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@
 	CNST_PMC_VAL(1) | CNST_PMC_VAL(2) | CNST_PMC_VAL(3) | \
 	CNST_PMC_VAL(4) | CNST_PMC_VAL(5) | CNST_PMC_VAL(6) | CNST_NC_VAL
 
+/*
+ * Lets restrict use of PMC5 for instruction counting.
+ */
+#define P9_DD1_TEST_ADDER	(ISA207_TEST_ADDER | CNST_PMC_VAL(5))
 
 /* Bits in MMCR1 for PowerISA v2.07 */
 #define MMCR1_UNIT_SHIFT(pmc)		(60 - (4 * ((pmc) - 1)))
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
index 454e9f70894f..5fe9cb1dc3b6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ static struct power_pmu power9_pmu = {
 	.name			= "POWER9",
 	.n_counter		= MAX_PMU_COUNTERS,
 	.add_fields		= ISA207_ADD_FIELDS,
-	.test_adder		= ISA207_TEST_ADDER,
+	.test_adder		= P9_DD1_TEST_ADDER,
 	.compute_mmcr		= isa207_compute_mmcr,
 	.config_bhrb		= power9_config_bhrb,
 	.bhrb_filter_map	= power9_bhrb_filter_map,
-- 
2.7.4



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