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2009-01-14powerpc/perf_counter: Make sure PMU gets enabled properlyPaul Mackerras
This makes sure that we call the platform-specific ppc_md.enable_pmcs function on each CPU before we try to use the PMU on that CPU. If the CPU goes off-line and then on-line, we need to do the enable_pmcs call again, so we use the hw_perf_counter_setup hook to ensure that. It gets called as each CPU comes online, but it isn't called on the CPU that is coming up, so this adds the CPU number as an argument to it (there were no non-empty instances of hw_perf_counter_setup before). This also arranges to set the pmcregs_in_use field of the lppaca (data structure shared with the hypervisor) on each CPU when we are using the PMU and clear it when we are not. This allows the hypervisor to optimize partition switches by not saving/restoring the PMU registers when we aren't using the PMU. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-10powerpc/perf_counter: Add support for POWER6Paul Mackerras
This adds the back-end for the PMU on the POWER6 processor. Fortunately, the event selection hardware is somewhat simpler on POWER6 than on other POWER family processors, so the constraints fit into only 32 bits. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-10powerpc/perf_counter: Add support for PPC970 familyPaul Mackerras
This adds the back-end for the PMU on the PPC970 family. The PPC970 allows events from the ISU to be selected in two different ways. Rather than use alternative event codes to express this, we instead use a single encoding for ISU events and express the resulting constraint (that you can't select events from all three of FPU/IFU/VPU, ISU and IDU/STS at the same time, since they all come in through only 2 multiplexers) using a NAND constraint field, and work out which multiplexer is used for ISU events at compute_mmcr time. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-01-10powerpc/perf_counter: Add generic support for POWER-family PMU hardwarePaul Mackerras
This provides the architecture-specific functions needed to access PMU hardware on the 64-bit PowerPC processors. It has been designed for the IBM POWER family (POWER 4/4+/5/5+/6 and PPC970) but will hopefully also suit other 64-bit PowerPC machines (although probably not Cell given how different it is in this area). This doesn't include back-ends for any specific processors. This implements a system which allows back-ends to express the constraints that their hardware has on what events can be counted simultaneously. The constraints are expressed as a 64-bit mask + 64-bit value for each event, and the encoding is capable of expressing the constraints arising from having a set of multiplexers feeding an event bus, with some events being available through multiple multiplexer settings, such as we get on POWER4 and PPC970. Furthermore, the back-end can supply alternative event codes for each event, and the constraint checking code will try all possible combinations of alternative event codes to try to find a combination that will fit. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>