1. 26 11月, 2010 1 次提交
  2. 30 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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      MIPS: Add support for hardware performance events (mipsxx) · 3a9ab99e
      Deng-Cheng Zhu 提交于
      This patch adds the mipsxx Perf-events support based on the skeleton.
      Generic hardware events and cache events are now fully implemented for
      the 24K/34K/74K/1004K cores. To support other cores in mipsxx (such as
      R10000/SB1), the generic hardware event tables and cache event tables
      need to be filled out. To support other CPUs which have different PMU
      than mipsxx, such as RM9000 and LOONGSON2, the additional files
      perf_event_$cpu.c need to be created.
      
      Raw event is an important part of Perf-events. It helps the user collect
      performance data for events that are not listed as the generic hardware
      events and cache events but ARE supported by the CPU's PMU.
      
      This patch also adds this feature for mipsxx 24K/34K/74K/1004K. For how to
      use it, please refer to processor core software user's manual and the
      comments for mipsxx_pmu_map_raw_event() for more details.
      
      Please note that this is a "precise" implementation, which means the
      kernel will check whether the requested raw events are supported by this
      CPU and which hardware counters can be assigned for them.
      
      To test the functionality of Perf-event, you may want to compile the tool
      "perf" for your MIPS platform. You can refer to the following URL:
      http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2010-10/msg00126.html
      
      You also need to customize the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS in tools/perf/Makefile
      for your libs, includes, etc.
      
      In case you encounter the boot failure in SMVP kernel on multi-threading
      CPUs, you may take a look at:
      http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux-mti.git;a=commitdiff;h=5460815027d802697b879644c74f0e8365254020Signed-off-by: NDeng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
      To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
      Cc: paulus@samba.org
      Cc: mingo@elte.hu
      Cc: acme@redhat.com
      Cc: jamie.iles@picochip.com
      Cc: ddaney@caviumnetworks.com
      Cc: matt@console-pimps.org
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1689/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      
       create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c
      3a9ab99e