On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote:

quoted

So something like they have on ARM?

vince@pandaboard:/sys/bus/event_source/devices$ ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul  8 21:57 ARMv7 Cortex-A9 -> ../../../devices/ARMv7 Cortex-A9
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul  8 21:57 breakpoint -> ../../../devices/breakpoint
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul  8 21:57 software -> ../../../devices/software
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul  8 21:57 tracepoint -> ../../../devices/tracepoint

Right so what I remember of the ARM case is that their /proc/cpuinfo isn't
sufficient to identify their PMU. And they don't have a cpuid like instruction
at all.

libpfm4 uses the
   CPU part	: 0xc09
line in /proc/cpuinfo on ARM, and that's enough for the processors PAPI 
supports (Cortex A8/A9/A15 plus the 1176 on the raspberry-pi).  I'm 
guessing it wouldn't be enough if we wanted to support *all* ARMs with
PMUs.

And speaking of ARM, I should be railing at them for breaking the ABI too, 
with their (understandable yet still ABI breaking) decision to remove 
BogoMIPS from /proc/cpuinfo.  That change will impact PAPI as well as 
various other programs I maintain that have the misfortune of parsing that 
file.

Vince