This capability gives us the ability to open PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE events on a specific PMU for free. All the implementation is contained in the Perf core and tool code so no change to the Arm PMU driver is needed. The following basic use case now results in Perf opening the event on all PMUs rather than picking only one in an unpredictable way: $ perf stat -e cycles -- taskset --cpu-list 0,1 stress -c 2 Performance counter stats for 'taskset --cpu-list 0,1 stress -c 2': 963279620 armv8_cortex_a57/cycles/ (99.19%) 752745657 armv8_cortex_a53/cycles/ (94.80%) Fixes: 55bcf6ef314a ("perf: Extend PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_HW_CACHE") Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724134500.970496-2-james.clark@arm.com
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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