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Mark Rutland 0fdf1bb759 arm64: perf: Avoid PMXEV* indirection

Currently we access the counter registers and their respective type
registers indirectly. This requires us to write to PMSELR, issue an ISB,
then access the relevant PMXEV* registers.

This is unfortunate, because:

* Under virtualization, accessing one register requires two traps to
  the hypervisor, even though we could access the register directly with
  a single trap.

* We have to issue an ISB which we could otherwise avoid the cost of.

* When we use NMIs, the NMI handler will have to save/restore the select
  register in case the code it preempted was attempting to access a
  counter or its type register.

We can avoid these issues by directly accessing the relevant registers.
This patch adds helpers to do so.

In armv8pmu_enable_event() we still need the ISB to prevent the PE from
reordering the write to PMINTENSET_EL1 register. If the interrupt is
enabled before we disable the counter and the new event is configured,
we might get an interrupt triggered by the previously programmed event
overflowing, but which we wrongly attribute to the event that we are
enabling. Execute an ISB after we disable the counter.

In the process, remove the comment that refers to the ARMv7 PMU.

[Julien T.: Don't inline read/write functions to avoid big code-size
	increase, remove unused read_pmevtypern function,
	fix counter index issue.]
[Alexandru E.: Removed comment, removed trailing semicolons in macros,
	added ISB]

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> (Developerbox)
Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200924110706.254996-3-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

2020-09-28 19:00:17 +01:00

boot

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2020-08-16 22:01:20 +01:00

configs

ARM: SoC driver updates for v5.9

2020-08-03 19:30:59 -07:00

crypto

crypto: arm64/gcm - use inline helper to suppress indirect calls

2020-07-09 22:14:32 +10:00

include

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