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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 3/5] perf arch events: riscv arch std event files
Hello Atish!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:01:07 -0700
Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 9:01 AM Nikita Shubin
> <nikita.shubin@maquefel.me> wrote:
> >
> > From: Nikita Shubin <n.shubin@yadro.com>
> >
> > cycles, time and instret counters are defined by RISC-V privileged
> > spec and they should be available on any RISC-V implementation,
> > epose them to arch std event files, so they can be reused by
> > particular PMU bindings.
> >
> > Derived-from-code-by: João Mário Domingos
> > <joao.mario@tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Signed-off-by: Nikita Shubin
> > <n.shubin@yadro.com>
>
> Why do we need this ? The PMU driver already parses the standard perf
> events. So you can pass -e cycles -e instructions.
>
> Even though time is described as a counter and accessibility
> controlled by mcounteren, you can not start/stop it (no bit in
> mcountinhibit).
> Thus, it can't be used from perf.

My first thought was that we can use cycle, time, instret on any RISC-V
platform even without any bindings, but as you pointed out it's
indeed useless.

I'll drop this one.

>
> > ---
> > .../pmu-events/arch/riscv/riscv-generic.json | 20
> > +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644
> > tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/riscv/riscv-generic.json
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/riscv/riscv-generic.json
> > b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/riscv/riscv-generic.json new file mode
> > 100644 index 000000000000..a7ffbe87a0f7
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/arch/riscv/riscv-generic.json
> > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> > +[
> > + {
> > + "PublicDescription": "CPU Cycles",
> > + "EventCode": "0x00",
> > + "EventName": "riscv_cycles",
> > + "BriefDescription": "CPU cycles RISC-V generic counter"
> > + },
> > + {
> > + "PublicDescription": "CPU Time",
> > + "EventCode": "0x01",
> > + "EventName": "riscv_time",
> > + "BriefDescription": "CPU time RISC-V generic counter"
> > + },
> > + {
> > + "PublicDescription": "CPU Instructions",
> > + "EventCode": "0x02",
> > + "EventName": "riscv_instret",
> > + "BriefDescription": "CPU retired instructions RISC-V generic
> > counter"
> > + }
> > +]
> > --
> > 2.35.1
> >
>
>

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