Re: [patch/rfc] perf on raspberry-pi without overflow interrupt

[Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>]

Hi Vince,

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 03:47:19AM +0000, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 04:28:20PM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > > Should the perf_event interface handle setups like this better and work 
> > > fine in aggregate mode but return ENOTSUP if a sampled or overflow event 
> > > is attempted?
> > 
> > Yeah that would be better, we do something similar for P6 class machines
> > without lapic IIRC.
> 
> You're right.  Something like the following works for me on the rasp-pi,
> although maybe if x86 is doing it too things should be moved up into 
> generic code?

I'd rather see it in the generic code if at all possible. Maybe we could add
a flags field to perf_pmu_register?

> Return EOPNOTSUPP if we have no PMU overflow interrupt but a
> sampled event is requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
> index f24edad..f1f27a3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
> @@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ struct arm_pmu {
>  	u64		max_period;
>  	struct platform_device	*plat_device;
>  	struct pmu_hw_events	*(*get_hw_events)(void);
> +	int		no_overflow_interrupt;

For the arm bits, we can actually use platform_get_irq on the platform
device and avoid the need for a new field in here.

Cheers,

Will