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powerpc: Add PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT
authorNathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:06:57 +0000 (01:06 +1000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:24:57 +0000 (12:24 +1000)
Background from Maynard Johnson:
As of POWER6, a set of 32 common events is defined that must be
supported on all future POWER processors.  The main impetus for this
compat set is the need to support partition migration, especially from
processor P(n) to processor P(n+1), where performance software that's
running in the new partition may not be knowledgeable about processor
P(n+1).  If a performance tool determines it does not support the
physical processor, but is told (via the
PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT bit) that the processor supports
the notion of the PMU compat set, then the performance tool can
surface just those events to the user of the tool.

PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT indicates that the PMU supports at
least this basic subset of events which is compatible across POWER
processor lines.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h

index 72adb19a204dc94128d1cc705708e2f0e4a7f35c..f7f3c215d06f30f3251ceea62bf6521f3813bb81 100644 (file)
@@ -70,10 +70,12 @@ extern void __restore_cpu_power7(void);
                                 PPC_FEATURE_SMT | PPC_FEATURE_ICACHE_SNOOP)
 #define COMMON_USER_POWER6     (COMMON_USER_PPC64 | PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_05 |\
                                 PPC_FEATURE_SMT | PPC_FEATURE_ICACHE_SNOOP | \
-                                PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE)
+                                PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE | \
+                                PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT)
 #define COMMON_USER_POWER7     (COMMON_USER_PPC64 | PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_06 |\
                                 PPC_FEATURE_SMT | PPC_FEATURE_ICACHE_SNOOP | \
-                                PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE)
+                                PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE | \
+                                PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT)
 #define COMMON_USER_PA6T       (COMMON_USER_PPC64 | PPC_FEATURE_PA6T |\
                                 PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE | \
                                 PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC_COMP)
index 4fd76898975b7998d1fd2b86a0bc5ebbe2b7e584..2a3e9075a5a0732768ebf71b3bb5abcf600cc588 100644 (file)
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 #define PPC_FEATURE_ARCH_2_06          0x00000100
 #define PPC_FEATURE_HAS_VSX            0x00000080
 
+#define PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT \
+                                       0x00000040
+
 #define PPC_FEATURE_TRUE_LE            0x00000002
 #define PPC_FEATURE_PPC_LE             0x00000001