* Michael Ellerman <mich...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:14:34AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Vince Weaver wrote: > > > > > > So something like they have on ARM? > > > > > > vince@pandaboard:/sys/bus/event_source/devices$ ls -l > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 ARMv7 Cortex-A9 -> > > > ../../../devices/ARMv7 Cortex-A9 > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 breakpoint -> > > > ../../../devices/breakpoint > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 software -> > > > ../../../devices/software > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 8 21:57 tracepoint -> > > > ../../../devices/tracepoint > > > > Right so what I remember of the ARM case is that their /proc/cpuinfo isn't > > sufficient to identify their PMU. And they don't have a cpuid like > > instruction > > at all. > > > > > > For the cpu you can obviously just detect what processor you're on with > > > > cpuid or whatever, but it's a bit of a hack. And that really doesn't > > > > work for non-cpu PMUs. > > > > > > why is it a hack to use cpuid? > > > > I agree, for x86 cpuid is perfectly fine, as would /proc/cpuinfo be, I > > suspect > > that just the model number is sufficient in most cases, even for uncore > > stuff. > > What about things on PCI? Other strange buses? > > As long as everything's in /sys then it should be _possible_ for > userspace to work out what's what, but it's going to end up with a bunch > of detection logic and heuristics in the library. > > At which point you've just rewritten libpfm4.
Exactly - PMUs enumerated in /sys should be self-identifying, it's a hardware topology after all ... Anytime userspace is forced to look into /proc, or into weird places in /sys it's a FAIL really. perf ABIs want to be self-identifying and self-sufficient, anytime userspace is forced to look elsewhere it adds another source of fragility. And duplication with something that is 'already in /proc' is not a problem _at all_, these are computers that provide us different views into the same physical reality with dozens of different abstractions, so duplication of information is natural and _good_. Thanks, Ingo _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev