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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-05 20:22:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-06 13:14:47 +0200 |
| commit | 8326f44da090d6d304d29b9fdc7fb3e20889e329 (patch) | |
| tree | a15b2a2155c64a327b3cdf1da0997755d49390eb /kernel | |
| parent | a21ca2cac582886a3e95c8bb84ff7c52d4d15e54 (diff) | |
perf_counter: Implement generalized cache event types
Extend generic event enumeration with the PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE
method.
This is a 3-dimensional space:
{ L1-D, L1-I, L2, ITLB, DTLB, BPU } x
{ load, store, prefetch } x
{ accesses, misses }
User-space passes in the 3 coordinates and the kernel provides
a counter. (if the hardware supports that type and if the
combination makes sense.)
Combinations that make no sense produce a -EINVAL.
Combinations that are not supported by the hardware produce -ENOTSUP.
Extend the tools to deal with this, and rewrite the event symbol
parsing code with various popular aliases for the units and
access methods above. So 'l1-cache-miss' and 'l1d-read-ops' are
both valid aliases.
( x86 is supported for now, with the Nehalem event table filled in,
and with Core2 and Atom having placeholder tables. )
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_counter.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index 75ae76796df..5eacaaf3f9c 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -3501,6 +3501,7 @@ perf_counter_alloc(struct perf_counter_attr *attr, switch (attr->type) { case PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE: + case PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE: pmu = hw_perf_counter_init(counter); break; |