From: khilman@ti•com (Kevin Hilman)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: oprofile and ARM A9 hardware counter
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:27:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vicsxef.fsf@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120403123444.GL17741@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (Will Deacon's message of "Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:34:45 +0100")
Hi Will,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:01:53AM +0100, Shilimkar, Santosh wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com> wrote:
>> > It seems that they're both needed to get reliable PMU operation. Without the
>> > CLKDM_CAN_SWSUP fix, no interrupts are generated at all. Without the patch
>> > below ([1]), it seems that we don't generate enough. So it looks like we
>> > need them both.
>> >
>> I see. Can you please confirm if it is still the case with [1].
>
> Right, ignore my previous comment, I was using a vanilla 3.3 kernel without
> realising and therefore what I thought were PMU/CTI interrupts were actually
> just from a timer. Sorry for the confusion.
>
> So I've gone back to basics. Here is a branch containing what I believe
> should be all the patches required for the OMAP4 PMU:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux.git perf/omap4
>
> I've omitted the SWSUSP patch since you say it breaks pm, which is clearly not
> acceptable.
>
> The problem is, trying to boot this on my pandaboard results in a hang (see
> dmesg below). Even worse, the problem isn't easily bisectable since rebuilding
> a working image can give you something that no longer boots and I haven't found
> a reliable way to cause the lockup.
>
> I'll take JTAG for a whirl to see where we are. If anything looks wrong in
> my dmesg, please shout (there are plenty of things in there that look like
> they've gone awry).
Not sure why it hangs for you, but it worked for me both with your
branch on v3.3 and merging with v3.4-rc1[1]
Below is a Kconfig snippet[2] which I append to my .config after
building omap2plus_defconfig in order to build a perf/trace/PMU enabled
kernel for my Panda.
Kevin
[1]
# perf stat sleep 1
Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1':
9.582520 task-clock # 0.009 CPUs utilized
1 context-switches # 0.104 K/sec
0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
147 page-faults # 0.015 M/sec
5096283 cycles # 0.532 GHz
607876 stalled-cycles-frontend # 11.93% frontend cycles idle
3285045 stalled-cycles-backend # 64.46% backend cycles idle
2722485 instructions # 0.53 insns per cycle
# 1.21 stalled cycles per insn
259247 branches # 27.054 M/sec
84274 branch-misses # 32.51% of all branches
1.015919088 seconds time elapsed
[2]
CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2=n
CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP3=n # need to disable OMAP3 for CPU_HAS_PMU support, needed for perf on OMAP4
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_NET_SMSC95XX=y
CONFIG_PROFILING=y
CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS=y
CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y
CONFIG_TRACING=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_TRACER=y
CONFIG_FTRACE=y
CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
CONFIG_ENABLE_DEFAULT_TRACERS=y
CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y
CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER=y
CONFIG_EVENT_POWER_TRACING_DEPRECATED=n
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[not found] ` <4F0B182D.7060507@us.ibm.com>
2012-01-09 22:49 ` oprofile and ARM A9 hardware counter Will Deacon
2012-01-09 23:30 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-10 0:46 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-18 4:18 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-18 9:33 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-18 11:39 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-01-18 12:24 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-18 12:33 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-03 9:25 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-03 9:42 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-03 9:47 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-03 10:01 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-03 12:34 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-03 12:41 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-03 14:27 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2012-04-03 16:07 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-03 23:14 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-04-03 23:29 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-04 3:42 ` Ming Lei
2012-04-04 11:15 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-26 18:07 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-30 22:25 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-07 17:27 ` Ming Lei
2012-05-04 22:17 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-07 17:15 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-07 19:53 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-07 23:28 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-08 11:01 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-05-08 11:23 ` Jean Pihet
2012-05-08 12:37 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-05-08 13:18 ` Jean Pihet
2012-05-08 14:00 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-08 14:03 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-05-08 16:18 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-08 19:51 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-08 21:28 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-08 22:20 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-08 22:12 ` Ming Lei
2012-05-08 17:31 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-08 21:22 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-08 23:59 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-09 10:58 ` Cousson, Benoit
2012-05-09 18:04 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-09 19:28 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-09 21:45 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-10 8:44 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-10 9:12 ` stephane eranian
2012-05-10 18:55 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-11 12:25 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-11 13:47 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-11 13:49 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-11 14:52 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-11 15:02 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-11 16:31 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-11 16:38 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-11 23:51 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-15 13:52 ` Will Deacon
2012-05-10 14:12 ` Kevin Hilman
2012-05-10 19:05 ` Jon Hunter
2012-05-10 6:59 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2012-05-08 21:50 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-04 0:00 ` Paul Walmsley
2012-04-04 11:07 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-18 9:54 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-18 10:07 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-18 21:58 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-19 1:21 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-19 11:34 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-19 12:45 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-19 12:51 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-19 12:55 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-19 13:14 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-19 13:26 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-19 13:32 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-19 13:51 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-19 17:07 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-20 13:47 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-21 3:25 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-21 9:16 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 12:13 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 12:45 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 12:56 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-01-27 13:28 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 13:32 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 13:47 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-01-27 13:56 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 14:05 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-01-27 14:09 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-27 15:45 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 15:54 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 15:57 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 16:59 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 17:03 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-27 17:10 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 17:16 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-29 17:36 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 9:40 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-30 10:24 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 13:43 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 14:49 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-30 16:02 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 16:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2012-01-30 17:15 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 17:24 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-30 17:45 ` stephane eranian
2012-01-30 19:14 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-30 20:45 ` stephane eranian
2012-03-07 2:49 ` Ming Lei
2012-03-07 9:48 ` Will Deacon
2012-01-27 14:06 ` Ming Lei
2012-01-18 10:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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2012-02-07 10:53 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-02-07 11:09 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-02-07 11:25 ` stephane eranian
2012-02-07 11:39 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-02-07 11:59 ` stephane eranian
2012-02-07 15:30 ` Will Deacon
2012-02-08 2:24 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-15 16:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 10:25 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-16 15:00 ` Will Deacon
2012-02-16 16:12 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-16 16:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-02-16 16:37 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-16 18:08 ` Will Deacon
2012-02-17 5:24 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-17 10:26 ` Will Deacon
2012-02-20 3:19 ` Ming Lei
2012-02-20 9:44 ` Will Deacon
2012-02-13 13:15 ` Will Deacon
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2012-02-18 4:31 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
2012-04-03 9:44 ` Will Deacon
2012-04-03 9:47 ` Shilimkar, Santosh
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