Currently:
$ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
2,24,699 cycles:u
<not counted> cycles:k (0.00%)
0.000788087 seconds time elapsed
We can not count more than one cycle counter in one instance,because we
allow to map cycle counter into PMCCNTR_EL0 only. However, if I did not
miss anything then specification do not prohibit to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0
for cycle count as well.
Modify the code so that it still prefers to use PMCCNTR_EL0 for cycle
counter, however allow to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0 if PMCCNTR_EL0 is already
in use.
After this patch:
$ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true
Performance counter stats for 'true':
2,17,310 cycles:u
7,40,009 cycles:k
0.000764149 seconds time elapsed
Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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