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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf tools: Make Power7 events available for perf
On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, 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.

libpfm4 uses the
CPU part : 0xc09
line in /proc/cpuinfo on ARM, and that's enough for the processors PAPI
supports (Cortex A8/A9/A15 plus the 1176 on the raspberry-pi). I'm
guessing it wouldn't be enough if we wanted to support *all* ARMs with
PMUs.

And speaking of ARM, I should be railing at them for breaking the ABI too,
with their (understandable yet still ABI breaking) decision to remove
BogoMIPS from /proc/cpuinfo. That change will impact PAPI as well as
various other programs I maintain that have the misfortune of parsing that
file.

Vince


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