linux/arch
Alexey Brodkin 36481cf7fb ARCv2: perf: Support sampling events using overflow interrupts
In times of ARC 700 performance counters didn't have support of
interrupt an so for ARC we only had support of non-sampling events.

Put simply only "perf stat" was functional.

Now with ARC HS we have support of interrupts in performance counters
which this change introduces support of.

ARC performance counters act in the following way in regard of
interrupts generation.
 [1] A counter counts starting from value set in PCT_COUNT register pair
 [2] Once counter reaches value set in PCT_INT_CNT interrupt is raised

Basic setup look like this:
 [1] PCT_COUNT = 0;
 [2] PCT_INT_CNT = __limit_value__;
 [3] Enable interrupts for that counter and let it run
 [4] Let counter reach its limit
 [5] Handle interrupt when it happens

Note that PCT HW block is build in CPU core and so ints interrupt
line (which is basically OR of all counters IRQs) is wired directly to
top-level IRQC. That means do de-assert PCT interrupt it's required to
reset IRQs from all counters that have reached their limit values.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
2015-08-27 14:57:43 +05:30
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alpha mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
arc ARCv2: perf: Support sampling events using overflow interrupts 2015-08-27 14:57:43 +05:30
arm USB fixes for 4.2-rc6 2015-08-08 04:27:51 +03:00
arm64 signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_to_user 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
avr32 avr32: handle NULL as a valid clock object 2015-07-27 09:14:07 +02:00
blackfin mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
c6x mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
cris mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
frv mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
h8300 mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
hexagon mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
ia64 mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
m32r m32r: Add ioreadXX/iowriteXX big-endian mmio accessors 2015-07-23 18:08:28 -07:00
m68k mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
metag mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
microblaze mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2015-08-09 05:59:21 +03:00
mn10300 mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
nios2 mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
openrisc mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
parisc parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd 2015-07-19 08:56:14 +02:00
powerpc signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
s390 Just two very small & simple patches. 2015-08-05 18:50:38 +03:00
score mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
sh mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
sparc sparc64: Fix userspace FPU register corruptions. 2015-08-06 19:13:25 -07:00
tile signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32 2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
um mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
unicore32 mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
x86 Just two very small & simple patches. 2015-08-05 18:50:38 +03:00
xtensa mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
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Kconfig x86/fpu, sched: Introduce CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT and use it on x86 2015-07-18 03:42:51 +02:00