Re: [RFC PATCH v2 08/10] perf: RISC-V: Introduce Andes PMU for perf event sampling

From: Conor Dooley
Date: Thu Oct 19 2023 - 12:02:30 EST


On Thu, Oct 19, 2023 at 10:01:56PM +0800, Yu Chien Peter Lin wrote:
> The Andes PMU extension provides the same mechanism as Sscofpmf,
> allowing us to reuse the SBI PMU driver to support event sampling
> and mode filtering.
>
> To make use of this custom PMU extension, "xandespmu" needs
> to be appended to the riscv,isa-extensions for each cpu node
> in device-tree, and enable CONFIG_ANDES_CUSTOM_PMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Chien Peter Lin <peterlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Charles Ci-Jyun Wu <dminus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Leo Yu-Chi Liang <ycliang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Locus Wei-Han Chen <locus84@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Locus Wei-Han Chen <locus84@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes v1 -> v2:
> - New patch
> ---
> arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h | 1 +
> arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
> drivers/perf/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++
> drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h
> index d3082391c901..eecfe95d5050 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/hwcap.h
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
> #define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIFENCEI 41
> #define RISCV_ISA_EXT_ZIHPM 42
> #define RISCV_ISA_EXT_XTHEADPMU 43
> +#define RISCV_ISA_EXT_XANDESPMU 44
>
> #define RISCV_ISA_EXT_MAX 64
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 4a3fb017026c..a8e71c6dfb3e 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ const struct riscv_isa_ext_data riscv_isa_ext[] = {
> __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svnapot, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVNAPOT),
> __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(svpbmt, RISCV_ISA_EXT_SVPBMT),
> __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(xtheadpmu, RISCV_ISA_EXT_XTHEADPMU),
> + __RISCV_ISA_EXT_DATA(xandespmu, RISCV_ISA_EXT_XANDESPMU),

This does not following the ordering convention (see the comment above
this datastructure) and is not documented in the dt-binding AFAICT.

Cheers,
Conor.

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