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perf: Fujitsu: Add the Uncore PMU driver

2025-09-22T12:05:11Z

This adds a new dynamic PMU to the Perf Events framework to program and control the Uncore PMUs in Fujitsu chips. This driver exports formatting and event information to sysfs so it can be used by the perf user space tools with the syntaxes: perf stat -e pci_iod0_pci0/ea-pci/ ls perf stat -e pci_iod0_pci0/event=0x80/ ls perf stat -e mac_iod0_mac0_ch0/ea-mac/ ls perf stat -e mac_iod0_mac0_ch0/event=0x80/ ls FUJITSU-MONAKA PMU Events Specification v1.1 URL: https://github.com/fujitsu/FUJITSU-MONAKA Reviewed-by: Yicong Yang Signed-off-by: Koichi Okuno Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE)

2025-07-08T16:58:49Z

The ARMv9.2 architecture introduces the optional Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE), which records information about branches as they are executed into set of branch record registers. BRBE is similar to x86's Last Branch Record (LBR) and PowerPC's Branch History Rolling Buffer (BHRB). BRBE supports filtering by exception level and can filter just the source or target address if excluded to avoid leaking privileged addresses. The h/w filter would be sufficient except when there are multiple events with disjoint filtering requirements. In this case, BRBE is configured with a union of all the events' desired branches, and then the recorded branches are filtered based on each event's filter. For example, with one event capturing kernel events and another event capturing user events, BRBE will be configured to capture both kernel and user branches. When handling event overflow, the branch records have to be filtered by software to only include kernel or user branch addresses for that event. In contrast, x86 simply configures LBR using the last installed event which seems broken. It is possible on x86 to configure branch filter such that no branches are ever recorded (e.g. -j save_type). For BRBE, events with a configuration that will result in no samples are rejected. Recording branches in KVM guests is not supported like x86. However, perf on x86 allows requesting branch recording in guests. The guest events are recorded, but the resulting branches are all from the host. For BRBE, events with branch recording and "exclude_host" set are rejected. Requiring "exclude_guest" to be set did not work. The default for the perf tool does set "exclude_guest" if no exception level options are specified. However, specifying kernel or user events defaults to including both host and guest. In this case, only host branches are recorded. BRBE can support some additional exception branch types compared to x86. On x86, all exceptions other than syscalls are recorded as IRQ. With BRBE, it is possible to better categorize these exceptions. One limitation relative to x86 is we cannot distinguish a syscall return from other exception returns. So all exception returns are recorded as ERET type. The FIQ branch type is omitted as the only FIQ user is Apple platforms which don't support BRBE. The debug branch types are omitted as there is no clear need for them. BRBE records are invalidated whenever events are reconfigured, a new task is scheduled in, or after recording is paused (and the records have been recorded for the event). The architecture allows branch records to be invalidated by the PE under implementation defined conditions. It is expected that these conditions are rare. Cc: Catalin Marinas Co-developed-by: Anshuman Khandual Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Tested-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) tested-by: Adam Young Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611-arm-brbe-v19-v23-4-e7775563036e@kernel.org [will: Fix sparse warnings about mixed declarations and code. Fix C99 comment syntax.] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

perf/marvell: Marvell PEM performance monitor support

2024-10-28T17:35:35Z

PCI Express Interface PMU includes various performance counters to monitor the data that is transmitted over the PCIe link. The counters track various inbound and outbound transactions which includes separate counters for posted/non-posted/completion TLPs. Also, inbound and outbound memory read requests along with their latencies can also be monitored. Address Translation Services(ATS)events such as ATS Translation, ATS Page Request, ATS Invalidation along with their corresponding latencies are also supported. The performance counters are 64 bits wide. For instance, perf stat -e ib_tlp_pr tracks the inbound posted TLPs for the workload. Co-developed-by: Linu Cherian Signed-off-by: Linu Cherian Signed-off-by: Gowthami Thiagarajan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241028055309.17893-1-gthiagarajan@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

perf: Add driver for Arm NI-700 interconnect PMU

2024-09-06T11:58:28Z

The Arm NI-700 Network-on-Chip Interconnect has a relatively straightforward design with a hierarchy of voltage, power, and clock domains, where each clock domain then contains a number of interface units and a PMU which can monitor events thereon. As such, it begets a relatively straightforward driver to interface those PMUs with perf. Even more so than with arm-cmn, users will require detailed knowledge of the wider system topology in order to meaningfully analyse anything, since the interconnect itself cannot know what lies beyond the boundary of each inscrutably-numbered interface. Given that, for now they are also expected to refer to the NI-700 documentation for the relevant event IDs to provide as well. An identifier is implemented so we can come back and add jevents if anyone really wants to. Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9933058d0ab8138c78a61cd6852ea5d5ff48e393.1725470837.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

perf/arm: Move 32-bit PMU drivers to drivers/perf/

2024-07-03T13:07:14Z

It is preferred to put drivers under drivers/ rather than under arch/. The PMU drivers also depend on arm_pmu.c, so it's better to place them all together. Acked-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240626-arm-pmu-3-9-icntr-v2-3-c9784b4f4065@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

perf: starfive: Add StarLink PMU support

2024-03-04T14:19:48Z

This patch adds support for StarFive's StarLink PMU (Performance Monitor Unit). StarLink PMU integrates one or more CPU cores with a shared L3 memory system. The PMU supports overflow interrupt, up to 16 programmable 64bit event counters, and an independent 64bit cycle counter. StarLink PMU is accessed via MMIO. Example Perf stat output: [root@user]# perf stat -a -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/cycles/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/read_miss/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/read_hit/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/release_request/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/write_hit/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/write_miss/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/write_request/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/writeback/ \ -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/read_request/ \ -- openssl speed rsa2048 Doing 2048 bits private rsa's for 10s: 5 2048 bits private RSA's in 2.84s Doing 2048 bits public rsa's for 10s: 169 2048 bits public RSA's in 2.42s version: 3.0.11 built on: Tue Sep 19 13:02:31 2023 UTC options: bn(64,64) CPUINFO: N/A sign verify sign/s verify/s rsa 2048 bits 0.568000s 0.014320s 1.8 69.8 ///////// Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 649991998 starfive_starlink_pmu/cycles/ 1009690 starfive_starlink_pmu/read_miss/ 1079750 starfive_starlink_pmu/read_hit/ 2089405 starfive_starlink_pmu/release_request/ 129 starfive_starlink_pmu/write_hit/ 70 starfive_starlink_pmu/write_miss/ 194 starfive_starlink_pmu/write_request/ 150080 starfive_starlink_pmu/writeback/ 2089423 starfive_starlink_pmu/read_request/ 27.062755678 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Ji Sheng Teoh Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240229072720.3987876-2-jisheng.teoh@starfivetech.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver

2023-12-13T15:35:28Z

This commit adds the PCIe Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) driver support for T-Head Yitian SoC chip. Yitian is based on the Synopsys PCI Express Core controller IP which provides statistics feature. The PMU is a PCIe configuration space register block provided by each PCIe Root Port in a Vendor-Specific Extended Capability named RAS D.E.S (Debug, Error injection, and Statistics). To facilitate collection of statistics the controller provides the following two features for each Root Port: - one 64-bit counter for Time Based Analysis (RX/TX data throughput and time spent in each low-power LTSSM state) and - one 32-bit counter for Event Counting (error and non-error events for a specified lane) Note: There is no interrupt for counter overflow. This driver adds PMU devices for each PCIe Root Port. And the PMU device is named based the BDF of Root Port. For example, 30:03.0 PCI bridge: Device 1ded:8000 (rev 01) the PMU device name for this Root Port is dwc_rootport_3018. Example usage of counting PCIe RX TLP data payload (Units of bytes):: $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ average RX bandwidth can be calculated like this: PCIe TX Bandwidth = Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload / Measure_Time_Window Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Reviewed-by: Yicong Yang Reviewed-and-tested-by: Ilkka Koskinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208025652.87192-5-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com [will: Fix sparse error due to use of uninitialised 'vsec' symbol in dwc_pcie_match_des_cap()] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'cxl-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl

2023-07-01T15:58:41Z

Pull CXL updates from Dan Williams: "The highlights in terms of new functionality are support for the standard CXL Performance Monitor definition that appeared in CXL 3.0, support for device sanitization (wiping all data from a device), secure-erase (re-keying encryption of user data), and support for firmware update. The firmware update support is notable as it reuses the simple sysfs_upload interface to just cat(1) a blob to a sysfs file and pipe that to the device. Additionally there are a substantial number of cleanups and reorganizations to get ready for RCH error handling (RCH == Restricted CXL Host == current shipping hardware generation / pre CXL-2.0 topologies) and type-2 (accelerator / vendor specific) devices. For vendor specific devices they implement a subset of what the generic type-3 (generic memory expander) driver expects. As a result the rework decouples optional infrastructure from the core driver context. For RCH topologies, where the specification working group did not want to confuse pre-CXL-aware operating systems, many of the standard registers are hidden which makes support standard bus features like AER (PCIe Advanced Error Reporting) difficult. The rework arranges for the driver to help the PCI-AER core. Bjorn is on board with this direction but a late regression disocvery means the completion of this functionality needs to cook a bit longer, so it is code reorganizations only for now. Summary: - Add infrastructure for supporting background commands along with support for device sanitization and firmware update - Introduce a CXL performance monitoring unit driver based on the common definition in the specification. - Land some preparatory cleanup and refactoring for the anticipated arrival of CXL type-2 (accelerator devices) and CXL RCH (CXL-v1.1 topology) error handling. - Rework CPU cache management with respect to region configuration (device hotplug or other dynamic changes to memory interleaving) - Fix region reconfiguration vs CXL decoder ordering rules" * tag 'cxl-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl: (51 commits) cxl: Fix one kernel-doc comment cxl/pci: Use correct flag for sanitize polling docs: perf: Minimal introduction the the CXL PMU device and driver perf: CXL Performance Monitoring Unit driver tools/testing/cxl: add firmware update emulation to CXL memdevs tools/testing/cxl: Use named effects for the Command Effect Log tools/testing/cxl: Fix command effects for inject/clear poison cxl: add a firmware update mechanism using the sysfs firmware loader cxl/test: Add Secure Erase opcode support cxl/mem: Support Secure Erase cxl/test: Add Sanitize opcode support cxl/mem: Wire up Sanitization support cxl/mbox: Add sanitization handling machinery cxl/mem: Introduce security state sysfs file cxl/mbox: Allow for IRQ_NONE case in the isr Revert "cxl/port: Enable the HDM decoder capability for switch ports" cxl/memdev: Formalize endpoint port linkage cxl/pci: Unconditionally unmask 256B Flit errors cxl/region: Manage decoder target_type at decoder-attach time cxl/hdm: Default CXL_DEVTYPE_DEVMEM decoders to CXL_DECODER_DEVMEM ...

perf: CXL Performance Monitoring Unit driver

2023-06-26T00:47:09Z

CXL rev 3.0 introduces a standard performance monitoring hardware block to CXL. Instances are discovered using CXL Register Locator DVSEC entries. Each CXL component may have multiple PMUs. This initial driver supports a subset of types of counter. It supports counters that are either fixed or configurable, but requires that they support the ability to freeze and write value whilst frozen. Development done with QEMU model which will be posted shortly. Example: $ perf stat -a -e cxl_pmu_mem0.0/h2d_req_snpcur/ -e cxl_pmu_mem0.0/h2d_req_snpdata/ -e cxl_pmu_mem0.0/clock_ticks/ sleep 1 Performance counter stats for 'system wide': 96,757,023,244,321 cxl_pmu_mem0.0/h2d_req_snpcur/ 96,757,023,244,365 cxl_pmu_mem0.0/h2d_req_snpdata/ 193,514,046,488,653 cxl_pmu_mem0.0/clock_ticks/ 1.090539600 seconds time elapsed Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Reviewed-by: Kan Liang Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526095824.16336-5-Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

drivers/perf: imx_ddr: Add support for NXP i.MX9 SoC DDRC PMU driver

2023-06-09T11:01:10Z

Add ddr performance monitor support for i.MX93. There are 11 counters for ddr performance events. - Counter 0 is a 64-bit counter that counts only clock cycles. - Counter 1-10 are 32-bit counters that can monitor counter-specific events in addition to counting reference events. For example: perf stat -a -e imx9_ddr0/ddrc_pm_1,counter=1/,imx9_ddr0/ddrc_pm_2,counter=2/ ls Besides, this ddr pmu support AXI filter capability. It's implemented as counter-specific events. It now supports read transaction, write transaction and read beat events which corresponding respecitively to counter 2, 3 and 4. axi_mask and axi_id need to be as event parameters. For example: perf stat -a -I 1000 -e imx9_ddr0/eddrtq_pm_rd_trans_filt,counter=2,axi_mask=ID_MASK,axi_id=ID/ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e imx9_ddr0/eddrtq_pm_wr_trans_filt,counter=3,axi_mask=ID_MASK,axi_id=ID/ perf stat -a -I 1000 -e imx9_ddr0/eddrtq_pm_rd_beat_filt,counter=4,axi_mask=ID_MASK,axi_id=ID/ Signed-off-by: Xu Yang Acked-by: Mark Rutland Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418102910.2065651-1-xu.yang_2@nxp.com [will: Remove redundant error message on platform_get_irq() failure] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon