From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
To: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@arm.com>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>,
Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, guohanjun@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drivers/perf: Add support for ARMv8.3-SPE
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:03:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861cf678-3e6f-7627-8d41-b9395cb6e5e0@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201127060322.29025-1-liwei391@huawei.com>
On 11/27/20 6:03 AM, Wei Li wrote:
> Armv8.3 extends the SPE by adding:
> - Alignment field in the Events packet, and filtering on this event
> using PMSEVFR_EL1.
> - Support for the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE).
>
> The main additions for SVE are:
> - Recording the vector length for SVE operations in the Operation Type
> packet. It is not possible to filter on vector length.
> - Incomplete predicate and empty predicate fields in the Events packet,
> and filtering on these events using PMSEVFR_EL1.
>
> Update the check of pmsevfr for empty/partial predicated SVE and
> alignment event in SPE driver. For adaption by the version of SPE,
> expose 'pmsver' as cap attribute to userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei391@huawei.com>
nit: Do we need to update the Kconfig help text too ? Right now that says :
--
tristate "Enable support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling Extension""
....
help
Enable perf support for the ARMv8.2 Statistical Profiling
Extension, which provides periodic sampling of operations in
--
Suzuki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-27 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-27 6:03 Wei Li
2020-11-27 12:03 ` Suzuki K Poulose [this message]
2020-11-30 9:55 ` Will Deacon
2020-11-30 10:06 ` Will Deacon
2020-12-03 8:42 ` liwei (GF)
2020-12-03 9:19 ` Will Deacon
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