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Re: [PATCH V4] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver

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On 2017-03-17 10:24, Agustin Vega-Frias wrote:
> This adds a new dynamic PMU to the Perf Events framework to program
> and control the L3 cache PMUs in some Qualcomm Technologies SOCs.
> 
> The driver supports a distributed cache architecture where the overall
> cache for a socket is comprised of multiple slices each with its own 
> PMU.
> Access to each individual PMU is provided even though all CPUs share 
> all
> the slices. User space needs to aggregate to individual counts to 
> provide
> a global picture.
> 
> The driver exports formatting and event information to sysfs so it can
> be used by the perf user space tools with the syntaxes:
>    perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_0/read-miss/
>    perf stat -a -e l3cache_0_0/event=0x21/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.txt |  25 ++
>  drivers/perf/Kconfig               |  10 +
>  drivers/perf/Makefile              |   1 +
>  drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c         | 825 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/cpuhotplug.h         |   1 +
>  5 files changed, 862 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/perf/qcom_l3_pmu.c

This was built and tested on top of v4.11-rc2.
The perf fuzzer was run overnight and no stability issues were found.

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Technologies, Inc.
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[PATCH V4] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-17 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V4] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-17 15:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH V4] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-03-23 16:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH V4] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> - 2017-03-23 19:50 +0100

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