This patch adds documentation for the uncore PMUs on HiSilicon SoC. Signed-off-by: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshao...@hisilicon.com> Signed-off-by: Anurup M <anuru...@huawei.com> --- Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.txt | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.txt b/Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5fa0b1a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/perf/hisi-pmu.txt @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +HiSilicon SoC uncore Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) +====================================================== +The HiSilicon SoC chip comprehends various independent system device PMUs +such as L3 cache (L3C), Hydra Home Agent (HHA) and DDRC. These PMUs are +independent and have hardware logic to gather statistics and performance +information. + +HiSilicon SoC encapsulates multiple CPU and IO dies. Each CPU cluster (CC +L) is made up of 4 cpu cores sharing one L3 cache; Each CPU die is called +Super CPU cluster (SCCL) and is made up of 6 CCLs. Each SCCL has two HHAs +(0 - 1) and four DDRCs (0 - 3), respectively. + +HiSilicon SoC uncore PMU driver +--------------------------------------- +Each device PMU has separate registers for event counting, control and +interrupt, and the PMU driver shall register perf PMU drivers like L3C, +HHA and DDRC etc. The available events and configuration options shall +be described in the sysfs, see /sys/devices/hisi_*. +The "perf list" command shall list the available events from sysfs. + +Each L3C, HHA and DDRC in one SCCL are registered as an separate PMU with perf. +The PMU name will appear in event listing as hisi_module <index-id>_<sccl-id>. +where "index-id" is the index of module and "sccl-id" is the identifier of +the SCCL. +e.g. hisi_l3c0_1/rd_hit_cpipe is READ_HIT_CPIPE event of L3C index #0 and SCCL +ID #1. +e.g. hisi_hha0_1/rx_operations is RX_OPERATIONS event of HHA index #0 and SCCL +ID #1. + +The driver also provides a "cpumask" sysfs attribute, which shows the CPU core +ID used to count the uncore PMU event. + +Example usage of perf: +$# perf list +hisi_l3c0_3/rd_hit_cpipe/ [kernel PMU event] +------------------------------------------ +hisi_l3c0_3/wr_hit_cpipe/ [kernel PMU event] +------------------------------------------ +hisi_l3c0_1/rd_hit_cpipe/ [kernel PMU event] +------------------------------------------ +hisi_l3c0_1/wr_hit_cpipe/ [kernel PMU event] +------------------------------------------ + +$# perf stat -a -e hisi_l3c0_1/rd_hit_cpipe/ sleep 5 +$# perf stat -a -e hisi_l3c0_1/config=0x02/ sleep 5 + +The current driver does not support sampling. So "perf record" is unsupported. +Also attach to a task is unsupported as the events are all uncore. + +Note: Please contact the maintainer for a complete list of events supported for +the PMU devices in the SoC and its information if needed. -- 1.9.1