[PATCH v2 06/10] powerpc/perf: power10 Performance Monitoring support

Athira Rajeev atrajeev at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 8 20:56:32 AEST 2020



> On 07-Jul-2020, at 12:20 PM, Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> @@ -480,6 +520,7 @@ int isa207_compute_mmcr(u64 event[], int n_ev,
>> 	mmcr[1] = mmcr1;
>> 	mmcr[2] = mmcra;
>> 	mmcr[3] = mmcr2;
>> +	mmcr[4] = mmcr3;
> 
> This is fragile like the kvm vcpu case I commented on before but it gets passed
> in via a function parameter?! Can you create a struct to store these in rather
> than this odd ball numbering?

Mikey,
Yes, it gets passed as cpuhw->mmcr array 
I will check on these cleanup changes for the kvm vcpu case as well as cpu_hw_events mmcr array

Thanks
Athira
> 
> The cleanup should start in patch 1/10 here:
> 
>        /*
>         * The order of the MMCR array is:
> -        *  - 64-bit, MMCR0, MMCR1, MMCRA, MMCR2
> +        *  - 64-bit, MMCR0, MMCR1, MMCRA, MMCR2, MMCR3
>         *  - 32-bit, MMCR0, MMCR1, MMCR2
>         */
> -       unsigned long mmcr[4];
> +       unsigned long mmcr[5];
> 
> 
> 
> mikey



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