Subject: [PATCH v3 07/20] KVM: ARM64: PMU: Add perf event map and introduce perf event creating function

From: [email-masked] (Shannon Zhao)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:32:42 +0800

On 2015/10/16 14:08, Wei Huang wrote:
>> +/**
>> > + * kvm_pmu_get_counter_value - get PMU counter value
>> > + * @vcpu: The vcpu pointer
>> > + * @select_idx: The counter index
>> > + */
>> > +unsigned long kvm_pmu_get_counter_value(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 select_idx)
>> > +{
>> > +	u64 enabled, running;
>> > +	struct kvm_pmu *pmu = &vcpu->arch.pmu;
>> > +	struct kvm_pmc *pmc = &pmu->pmc[select_idx];
>> > +	u64 counter;
>> > +
>> > +	if (!vcpu_mode_is_32bit(vcpu))
>> > +		counter = vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, PMEVCNTR0_EL0 + select_idx);
> The select_idx is from PMSELR_EL0. According to PMUv3 spec, PMSELR_EL0
> is the register that "selects the current event counter PMEVCNTR<x> or
> the cycle counter, CCNT". The code here always reads the counter value
> from PMEVCNTR. It doesn't read the value from cycle counter when
> select_idx=0b11111. We might waste some perf counter resources here.
> 
No, it does read the value from the cycle counter. When
select_idx=0b11111, PMEVCNTR0_EL0 + select_idx = PMCCNTR_EL0( See patch
03/20).

-- 
Shannon