[PATCH] powerpc/perf: Give generic PMU a nice name

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Fri Jun 10 14:36:53 AEST 2022


On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 08:53, Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/26/22 12:07 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > When booting on a machine that uses the compat pmu driver we see this:
> >
> >   [    0.071192] GENERIC_COMPAT performance monitor hardware support registered
> Sorry that was my mistake.
> I agree having it as ISAv3 is better.

Okay. The downside of this is it's not as clear that you're using a
fallback driver.

I'll send a v2 with ISAv3

>
> Maddy
>
> >
> > Which is a bit shouty. Give it a nicer name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>
> > ---
> >
> > Other options:
> >
> >   - ISAv3 (because it is relevant for PowerISA 3.0B and beyond, see the
> >     comment in init_generic_compat_pmu)
> >
> >   - Generic Compat (same, but less shouty)
> >
> >   arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c
> > index f3db88aee4dd..5be5a5ebaf42 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c
> > @@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ static int generic_compute_mmcr(u64 event[], int n_ev,
> >   }
> >
> >   static struct power_pmu generic_compat_pmu = {
> > -     .name                   = "GENERIC_COMPAT",
> > +     .name                   = "Architected",
> >       .n_counter              = MAX_PMU_COUNTERS,
> >       .add_fields             = ISA207_ADD_FIELDS,
> >       .test_adder             = ISA207_TEST_ADDER,


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