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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-22 11:10:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-23 12:45:25 +0100 |
| commit | 2f18d1e8d07ae67dd0afce875287756d4bd31a46 (patch) | |
| tree | bad96eb7e3330ac470b98d22ec7650da7b7b8910 /arch/x86/include/asm | |
| parent | f650a672359819454c3d8d4135ecd1558cde0b24 (diff) | |
x86, perfcounters: add support for fixed-function pmcs
Impact: extend performance counter support on x86 Intel CPUs
Modern Intel CPUs have 3 "fixed-function" performance counters, which
count these hardware events:
Instr_Retired.Any
CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Core
CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref
Add support for them to the performance counters subsystem.
Their use is transparent to user-space: the counter scheduler is
extended to automatically recognize the cases where a fixed-function
PMC can be utilized instead of a generic PMC. In such cases the
generic PMC is kept available for more counters.
The above fixed-function events map to these generic counter hw events:
PERF_COUNT_INSTRUCTIONS
PERF_COUNT_CPU_CYCLES
PERF_COUNT_BUS_CYCLES
(The 'bus' cycles are in reality often CPU-ish cycles, just with a fixed
frequency.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h index 13745deb16c8..2e08ed736647 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counter.h @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ #define ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_OS (1 << 17) #define ARCH_PERFMON_EVENTSEL_USR (1 << 16) +/* + * Includes eventsel and unit mask as well: + */ +#define ARCH_PERFMON_EVENT_MASK 0xffff + #define ARCH_PERFMON_UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES_SEL 0x3c #define ARCH_PERFMON_UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES_UMASK (0x00 << 8) #define ARCH_PERFMON_UNHALTED_CORE_CYCLES_INDEX 0 @@ -69,12 +74,15 @@ union cpuid10_edx { /* Instr_Retired.Any: */ #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR0 0x309 +#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_INSTRUCTIONS (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 0) /* CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Core: */ #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR1 0x30a +#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_CPU_CYCLES (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 1) /* CPU_CLK_Unhalted.Ref: */ #define MSR_ARCH_PERFMON_FIXED_CTR2 0x30b +#define X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED_BUS_CYCLES (X86_PMC_IDX_FIXED + 2) #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS extern void init_hw_perf_counters(void); |