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XP can provide events from two sources: watchpoints, observing traffic on device ports and PMU looking at internal buses. Unfortunately the sysfs definition of the PMU events was requiring port number (instead of bus number) and direction (the buses are unidirectional), as these fields were shared with the watchpoint event. Although it does not introduce a major problem (port can be used as bus alias and direction is simply ignored for XP PMU events), it's better to fix it now, before external tools start depending on this behaviour. Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
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ARM Cache Coherent Network
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CCN-504 is a ring-bus interconnect consisting of 11 crosspoints
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(XPs), with each crosspoint supporting up to two device ports,
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so nodes (devices) 0 and 1 are connected to crosspoint 0,
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nodes 2 and 3 to crosspoint 1 etc.
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PMU (perf) driver
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The CCN driver registers a perf PMU driver, which provides
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description of available events and configuration options
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in sysfs, see /sys/bus/event_source/devices/ccn*.
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The "format" directory describes format of the config, config1
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and config2 fields of the perf_event_attr structure. The "events"
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directory provides configuration templates for all documented
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events, that can be used with perf tool. For example "xp_valid_flit"
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is an equivalent of "type=0x8,event=0x4". Other parameters must be
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explicitly specified.
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For events originating from device, "node" defines its index.
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Crosspoint PMU events require "xp" (index), "bus" (bus number)
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and "vc" (virtual channel ID).
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Crosspoint watchpoint-based events (special "event" value 0xfe)
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require "xp" and "vc" as as above plus "port" (device port index),
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"dir" (transmit/receive direction), comparator values ("cmp_l"
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and "cmp_h") and "mask", being index of the comparator mask.
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Masks are defined separately from the event description
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(due to limited number of the config values) in the "cmp_mask"
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directory, with first 8 configurable by user and additional
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4 hardcoded for the most frequent use cases.
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Cycle counter is described by a "type" value 0xff and does
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not require any other settings.
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The driver also provides a "cpumask" sysfs attribute, which contains
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a single CPU ID, of the processor which will be used to handle all
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the CCN PMU events. It is recommended that the user space tools
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request the events on this processor (if not, the perf_event->cpu value
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will be overwritten anyway). In case of this processor being offlined,
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the events are migrated to another one and the attribute is updated.
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Example of perf tool use:
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/ # perf list | grep ccn
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ccn/cycles/ [Kernel PMU event]
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<...>
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ccn/xp_valid_flit,xp=?,port=?,vc=?,dir=?/ [Kernel PMU event]
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<...>
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/ # perf stat -a -e ccn/cycles/,ccn/xp_valid_flit,xp=1,port=0,vc=1,dir=1/ \
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sleep 1
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The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will
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not work. Per-task (without "-a") perf sessions are not supported.
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