On 04/25/2017 05:44 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:05:46PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> The ARMv8 PMUv3 cache map did not include the L2 cache events, add
>> them.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
>> index 4f011cdd756d..a664c575f3fd 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c
>> @@ -264,6 +264,11 @@ static const unsigned 
>> armv8_pmuv3_perf_cache_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MAX]
>>      [C(L1I)][C(OP_READ)][C(RESULT_ACCESS)]  = ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L1I_CACHE,
>>      [C(L1I)][C(OP_READ)][C(RESULT_MISS)]    = 
>> ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L1I_CACHE_REFILL,
>>  
>> +    [C(LL)][C(OP_READ)][C(RESULT_ACCESS)]   = ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L2D_CACHE,
>> +    [C(LL)][C(OP_READ)][C(RESULT_MISS)]     = 
>> ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L2D_CACHE_REFILL,
>> +    [C(LL)][C(OP_WRITE)][C(RESULT_ACCESS)]  = ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L2D_CACHE,
>> +    [C(LL)][C(OP_WRITE)][C(RESULT_MISS)]    = 
>> ARMV8_PMUV3_PERFCTR_L2D_CACHE_REFILL,
> 
> I don't think this is correct in general. 'LL' stands for "last-level",
> which may be L3 or even a system cache in the interconnect. Tying that to L2
> is the wrong thing to do from perf's generic event perspective.
> 
> I'm ok with what you're proposing for A53 (where the PMU can only count
> events out to the L2), but I'm reluctant to make this change for the generic
> PMUv3 events.

That makes sense, shall I resubmit the first patch by itself or can you
or Catalin take it as-is?

Thanks!
-- 
Florian

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