[PATCH v2 2/2] perf/arm-cmn: Allow userspace to select the PMU's CPU
WARM3d
From: Haris Okanovic <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-30 23:12:07
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arm interconnect pmu drivers, arm pmu profiling and debugging, documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Robin Murphy, Will Deacon, Mark Rutland, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
arm_cmn_probe() picks the CPU that owns the PMU with cmn->cpu = cpumask_local_spread(0, dev_to_node(cmn->dev)); and arm_cmn_event_init() then binds every event to it unconditionally. That choice is only revisited by the CPU hotplug callbacks, so in practice the PMU stays on the first CPU local to the interconnect's NUMA node, which is usually CPU 0. All of the PMU's recurring work therefore lands on one CPU. This is problematic on systems which reserve particular CPUs for latency sensitive work or confine background activity to a chosen set of housekeeping CPUs. There is no way to set it explicitly. perf_event_open() and 'perf stat -C' have no effect because arm_cmn_event_init() overwrites event->cpu; /proc/irq/*/smp_affinity is refused for the DTC interrupts, which are requested with IRQF_NOBALANCING because their affinity has to follow the owning CPU. Make the existing 'cpumask' attribute writable. It already reports the CPU which owns the PMU; writing a CPU number now migrates the PMU there via the existing arm_cmn_migrate(), which moves the perf contexts and the DTC interrupt affinity together. Since the PMU has a single owning CPU, anything other than one CPU number is rejected. The attribute expresses a preference rather than a guarantee. The hotplug callbacks may still move the PMU, for example when the chosen CPU is offlined. Signed-off-by: Haris Okanovic <redacted> --- Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-cmn.rst | 18 ++++++++++ drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-cmn.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-cmn.rst
index 796e25b7027b2..bf75b686cef76 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-cmn.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-cmn.rst@@ -44,6 +44,24 @@ given type. To target a specific node, "bynodeid" must be set to 1 and "nodeid" to the appropriate value derived from the CMN configuration (as defined in the "Node ID Mapping" section of the TRM). +CPU affinity +------------ + +The driver also provides a "cpumask" sysfs attribute, which contains a +single CPU ID, of the processor which will be used to handle all the CMN +PMU events. + +The attribute is writable, and accepts a single CPU ID to move the PMU +to that processor, for instance to keep counter reads, interrupt handling +and event rotation away from CPUs reserved for latency sensitive work:: + + $# echo 5 > /sys/bus/event_source/devices/arm_cmn_0/cpumask + +This expresses a preference rather than a guarantee. In case of the +chosen processor being offlined, or a processor local to the +interconnect's NUMA node coming online while the chosen one is not, the +events and interrupts are migrated and the attribute is updated. + Watchpoints -----------
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c b/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c
index a5593e5821925..1f114ac3f0700 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm-cmn.c@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/acpi.h> #include <linux/bitfield.h> #include <linux/bitops.h> +#include <linux/cpu.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/interrupt.h> #include <linux/io.h>
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/of.h> #include <linux/perf_event.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h>
@@ -404,6 +406,8 @@ struct arm_cmn_nodeid { u8 dev; }; +static void arm_cmn_migrate(struct arm_cmn *cmn, unsigned int cpu); + static int arm_cmn_xyidbits(const struct arm_cmn *cmn) { return fls((cmn->mesh_x - 1) | (cmn->mesh_y - 1));
@@ -1519,8 +1523,42 @@ static ssize_t arm_cmn_cpumask_show(struct device *dev, return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(cpumask_of(cmn->cpu))); } +static ssize_t arm_cmn_cpumask_store(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) +{ + static DEFINE_MUTEX(cpumask_mutex); + + struct arm_cmn *cmn = to_cmn(dev_get_drvdata(dev)); + unsigned int cpu; + int err; + + err = kstrtouint(buf, 0, &cpu); + if (err) + return err; + + if (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) + return -EINVAL; + + /* Serialises multiple writers against each other */ + mutex_lock(&cpumask_mutex); + /* Blocks hotplug during write */ + cpus_read_lock(); + + if (!cpu_online(cpu)) + err = -EINVAL; + else if (cpu != cmn->cpu) + arm_cmn_migrate(cmn, cpu); + + cpus_read_unlock(); + mutex_unlock(&cpumask_mutex); + + return err ?: count; +} + static struct device_attribute arm_cmn_cpumask_attr = - __ATTR(cpumask, 0444, arm_cmn_cpumask_show, NULL); + __ATTR(cpumask, 0644, arm_cmn_cpumask_show, + arm_cmn_cpumask_store); static ssize_t arm_cmn_identifier_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
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Haris Okanovic
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