Hi Leo
On 2020/8/7 15:16, Leo Yan wrote:
> The Arm arch timer can be used to calculate timestamp, the basic idea is
> the arch timer's counter value can be recorded in the hardware tracing
> data, e.g. the arch timer's counter value can be used for Arm CoreSight
> (not now but might be implemented later) and Arm SPE. So we need a way
> to convert the arch timer's counter to the system time, the conversion
> is dependent on some related parameters, e.g. 'time_shift', 'time_mult',
> 'time_offset', etc; furthermore, to handle the counter wrapping issue,
> perf tool needs to know 'time_cycles' and 'time_mask' for correction.
>
> This patch is to support Arm arch timer by reading out the relevant
> parameters from the head of first mmaped page. And these parameters
> will be stored into the structure 'perf_arch_timer_conversion' for
> later calculation timestamp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <[email protected]>
> ---
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build | 1 +
> tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arch_timer.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/perf/util/arm_arch_timer.h | 20 ++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 71 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arch_timer.c
> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/arm_arch_timer.h
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> index 5c13438c7bd4..77f4d7b30932 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/Build
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +perf-y += arch_timer.o
> perf-y += header.o
> perf-y += machine.o
> perf-y += perf_regs.o
> diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arch_timer.c
> b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arch_timer.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..dcc217c294fc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/util/arch_timer.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#include <stdbool.h>
> +#include <errno.h>
> +
> +#include <linux/stddef.h>
> +#include <linux/perf_event.h>
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +#include <asm/barrier.h>
> +#include "../../../util/debug.h"
> +#include "../../../util/event.h"
> +#include "../../../util/synthetic-events.h"
> +#include "../../../util/arm_arch_timer.h"
> +
> +int perf_read_arch_timer_conversion(const struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc,
> + struct perf_arch_timer_conversion *tc)
> +{
> + bool cap_user_time_zero, cap_user_time_short;
> + u32 seq;
> + int i = 0;
> +
> + while (1) {
> + seq = pc->lock;
> + /* Add barrier between the sequence lock and data accessing */
> + rmb();
> +
> + tc->time_mult = pc->time_mult;
> + tc->time_shift = pc->time_shift;
> + tc->time_zero = pc->time_zero;
> + tc->time_cycles = pc->time_cycles;
> + tc->time_mask = pc->time_mask;
> + cap_user_time_zero = pc->cap_user_time_zero;
> + cap_user_time_short = pc->cap_user_time_short;
> +
> + /* Add barrier between the data accessing and sequence lock */
> + rmb();
> + if (pc->lock == seq && !(seq & 1))
> + break;
> + if (++i > 10000) {
> + pr_debug("%s: failed to get perf_event_mmap_page
> lock\n",
> + __func__);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (!cap_user_time_zero || !cap_user_time_short)
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
Should we implement the perf_event__synth_time_conv() method? As it can be
supported
on arm64 arch now.
These is also a tsc get method called rdtsc(), weak implementation in
'tools/perf/util/tsc.c',
maybe we should rename it to an arch independent name, and implement the arm64
version
(read_cntvct_el0 in patch 3) here. Thus we can also make the testcase generic,
instead of adding a new one for arm64 :).
Thanks,
Wei
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/arm_arch_timer.h
> b/tools/perf/util/arm_arch_timer.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..a3263cc4e5cf
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/arm_arch_timer.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +#ifndef __PERF_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_H
> +#define __PERF_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_H
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +struct perf_arch_timer_conversion {
> + u16 time_shift;
> + u32 time_mult;
> + u64 time_zero;
> + u64 time_cycles;
> + u64 time_mask;
> +};
> +
> +struct perf_event_mmap_page;
> +
> +int perf_read_arch_timer_conversion(const struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc,
> + struct perf_arch_timer_conversion *tc);
> +
> +#endif // __PERF_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_H
>
