On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:13:51AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> 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 <f.faine...@gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  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?

I'll talk to Catalin tomorrow and try to get the A53 bit queued.

Will

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