Hi Junhao,
On 2023/6/19 21:00, hejunhao wrote:
> Hi, Yicong
>
>
> On 2023/6/6 22:22, Yicong Yang wrote:
>> From: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The PTT trace collects PCIe TLP headers from the PCIe link and don't
>> have the ability to exclude certain context. It doesn't support itrace
>> as well. So only advertise PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE. This will greatly
>> save the storage of final data. Tested tracing idle link for ~15s,
>> without this patch we'll collect ~28.682MB data for context related
>> information and with this patch it reduced to ~0.226MB.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c b/drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c
>> index 5c7e93e7705f..ff2c16efe5b1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c
>> @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ static int hisi_ptt_register_pmu(struct hisi_ptt *hisi_ptt)
>> hisi_ptt->hisi_ptt_pmu = (struct pmu) {
>> .module = THIS_MODULE,
>> - .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE | PERF_PMU_CAP_ITRACE,
>> + .capabilities = PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE,
>
> According to the error prompt of function hisi_ptt_trace_start().
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.4-rc7/source/drivers/hwtracing/ptt/hisi_ptt.c#L197
>
> You may be need to keep advertise PERF_PMU_CAP_EXCLUSIVE?
> Such pmus can only have one event scheduled at a time, if not the perf
> tool will report device busy.
>
Thanks for point it out. Checking [1] I think we still need this flag here, will add
it back.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.4-rc6/kernel/events/core.c#L5054
Thanks.
