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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-05 20:22:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-06-06 13:14:47 +0200
commit8326f44da090d6d304d29b9fdc7fb3e20889e329 (patch)
treea15b2a2155c64a327b3cdf1da0997755d49390eb /kernel
parenta21ca2cac582886a3e95c8bb84ff7c52d4d15e54 (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.c1
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;