At present ARMv8 event counters are limited to 32-bits, though by
using the CHAIN event it's possible to combine adjacent counters to
achieve 64-bits. The perf config1:0 bit can be set to use such a
configuration.
With the introduction of ARMv8.5-PMU support, all event counters can
now be used as 64-bit counters. Let's add support for 64-bit event
counters.
As KVM doesn't yet support 64-bit event counters, we also trap
and emulate the Debug Feature Registers to limit the PMU version a
guest sees to PMUv3 for ARMv8.4.
Tested by running the following perf command on both guest and host
and ensuring that the figures are very similar:
perf stat -e armv8_pmuv3/inst_retired,long=1/ \
-e armv8_pmuv3/inst_retired,long=0/ -e cycles
Andrew Murray (3):
arm64: cpufeature: Extract capped fields
KVM: arm64: limit PMU version to ARMv8.4
arm64: perf: Add support for ARMv8.5-PMU 64-bit counters
arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 15 +++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h | 3 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h | 4 ++
arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 36 +++++++++++-
include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 1 +
6 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
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2.21.0
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