This series addresses a few issues with how the MIPS performance counters code supports the hardware multithreading MT ASE. Firstly, implementations of the MT ASE may implement performance counters per core or per thread(TC). MIPS Techologies & BMIPS5000 implementations signal this via a bit in the implmentation specific CONFIG7 register. Since this register is implementation specific, checking it should be guarded by a PRID check. This also replaces a bit defined by a magic number. Secondly, the code currently uses vpe_id(), defined as smp_processor_id(), divided by 2, to share core performance counters between VPEs. This relies on a couple of assumptions of the hardware implementation to function correctly (always 2 VPEs per core, and the hardware reading only the least significant bit). Finally, the method of sharing core performance counters between VPEs is suboptimal since it does not allow one process running on a VPE to use all of the performance counters available to it, because the kernel will reserve half of the coutners for the other VPE even if it may never use them. This reservation at counter probe is replaced with an allocation on use strategy. Tested on a MIPS Creator CI40 (2C2T MIPS InterAptiv with per-TC counters, though for the purposes of testing the per-TC availability was hardcoded to allow testing both paths). Series applies to v4.16-rc7 Matt Redfearn (5): MIPS: perf: More robustly probe for the presence of per-tc counters MIPS: perf: Use correct VPE ID when setting up VPE tracing MIPS: perf: Fix perf with MT counting other threads MIPS: perf: Allocate per-core counters on demand MIPS: perf: Fold vpe_id() macro into it's one last usage arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h | 10 ++ arch/mips/kernel/perf_event_mipsxx.c | 257 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
