Re: [PATCH V11 03/10] arm64/perf: Add branch stack support in struct arm_pmu
From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date: 2023-06-05 07:58:34
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On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:34:21AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
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This updates 'struct arm_pmu' for branch stack sampling support later. This adds a new 'features' element in the structure to track supported features, and another 'private' element to encapsulate implementation attributes on a given 'struct arm_pmu'. These updates here will help in tracking any branch stack sampling support, which is being added later. This also adds a helper arm_pmu_branch_stack_supported(). This also enables perf branch stack sampling event on all 'struct arm pmu', supporting the feature but after removing the current gate that blocks such events unconditionally in armpmu_event_init(). Instead a quick probe can be initiated via arm_pmu_branch_stack_supported() to ascertain the support. Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: James Clark <redacted> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted> --- drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 3 +-- include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 12 +++++++++++- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c index aada47e3b126..d4a4f2bd89a5 100644 --- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c +++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c@@ -510,8 +510,7 @@ static int armpmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event) !cpumask_test_cpu(event->cpu, &armpmu->supported_cpus)) return -ENOENT; - /* does not support taken branch sampling */ - if (has_branch_stack(event)) + if (has_branch_stack(event) && !arm_pmu_branch_stack_supported(armpmu)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; return __hw_perf_event_init(event);diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h index f7fbd162ca4c..0da745eaf426 100644 --- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h +++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h@@ -102,7 +102,9 @@ struct arm_pmu { int (*map_event)(struct perf_event *event); void (*sched_task)(struct perf_event_pmu_context *pmu_ctx, bool sched_in); int num_events; - bool secure_access; /* 32-bit ARM only */ + unsigned int secure_access : 1, /* 32-bit ARM only */ + has_branch_stack: 1, /* 64-bit ARM only */ + reserved : 30; #define ARMV8_PMUV3_MAX_COMMON_EVENTS 0x40 DECLARE_BITMAP(pmceid_bitmap, ARMV8_PMUV3_MAX_COMMON_EVENTS); #define ARMV8_PMUV3_EXT_COMMON_EVENT_BASE 0x4000@@ -118,8 +120,16 @@ struct arm_pmu { /* Only to be used by ACPI probing code */ unsigned long acpi_cpuid; + + /* Implementation specific attributes */ + void *private; }; +static inline bool arm_pmu_branch_stack_supported(struct arm_pmu *armpmu) +{ + return armpmu->has_branch_stack; +}
Since this is a trivial test, and we already access the 'secure_access' field directly, I'd prefer we removed this helper and directly accessesed arm_pmu::has_branch_stack, e.g. with the logic in armpmu_event_init() being: if (has_branch_stack(event) && !armpmu->has_branch_stack) return -EOPNOTSUPP; With that: Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Mark. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel