[Skiboot] [RESEND PATCH v1 00/11] OPAL support for Nest instrumentation

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jul 6 02:55:22 AEST 2015


Patchset adds support for Nest instrumentation services
in OPAL. Power8 has Nest instrumentation enabled with which
per-chip metrics like memory bandwidth, Powerbus, X link and
A link metrics can be obtained.

Patchset does two things,1) At the time of boot, it detects
the Nest instrumentation feature and created device-tree
entries to pass the information to kernel. Secondly, it
implements an opal call to control the PORE Thread Scheduler
(PTS) from kernel to start/stop Nest PMU counter collection.
Patchset tested only in IBM Tuleta boxes.

Change log v1:

1) Removed "uncore" naming and replaced it with "nest/ima" in all the
  file and function.
2) Added a DT entry to pass DIMM rate information
3) Added nest instrumentation detection code and catalog parser function
4) Added support functions for different nest units.

Kindly let me know your comments and feedback.

Madhavan Srinivasan (11):
 ibm-fsp/firenze: nest data structure definitions
 ibm-fsp/firenze: nest feature detection
 ibm-fsp/firenze: DT entry for per-chip HOMER offset
 ibm-fsp/firenze: DT entry for DIMM rate
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Nest unit parser function
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Nest MCS unit support
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Nest PowerBus unit support
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Nest Alink unit support
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Nest Xlink unit support
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Add OPAL call to enable/disable Nest pmu
 ibm-fsp/firenze: Add init function call to involve Nest support

 core/init.c        |   4 +
 hw/Makefile.inc    |   2 +-
 hw/fsp/fsp.c       |   3 +
 hw/nest.c          | 451 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/mem-map.h  |   2 +
 include/nest.h     | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/opal-api.h |   3 +-
 include/platform.h |   1 +
 include/types.h    |   1 +
 9 files changed, 709 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 hw/nest.c
 create mode 100644 include/nest.h

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