[RFCv4 5/7] drivers/perf: arm_pmu: expose a cpumask in sysfs

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Thu Sep 08 2016 - 06:23:29 EST


In systems with heterogeneous CPUs, there are multiple logical CPU PMUs,
each of which covers a subset of CPUs in the system. In some cases
userspace needs to know which CPUs a given logical PMU covers, so we'd
like to expose a cpumask under sysfs, similar to what is done for uncore
PMUs.

Unfortunately, prior to commit 00e727bb389359c8 ("perf stat: Balance
opening and reading events"), perf stat only correctly handled a cpumask
holding a single CPU, and only when profiling in system-wide mode. In
other cases, the presence of a cpumask file could cause perf stat to
behave erratically.

Thus, exposing a cpumask file would break older perf binaries in cases
where they would otherwise work.

To avoid this issue while still providing userspace with the information
it needs, this patch exposes a differently-named file (cpus) under
sysfs. New tools can look for this and operate correctly, while older
tools will not be adversely affected by its presence.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
index ac83e1e..09e9944 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
@@ -534,6 +534,25 @@ static int armpmu_filter_match(struct perf_event *event)
return cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, &armpmu->supported_cpus);
}

+static ssize_t armpmu_cpumask_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ struct arm_pmu *armpmu = to_arm_pmu(dev_get_drvdata(dev));
+ return cpumap_print_to_pagebuf(true, buf, &armpmu->supported_cpus);
+}
+
+static struct device_attribute armpmu_cpumask_attr =
+ __ATTR(cpus, S_IRUGO, armpmu_cpumask_show, NULL);
+
+static struct attribute *armpmu_common_attrs[] = {
+ &armpmu_cpumask_attr.attr,
+ NULL,
+};
+
+static struct attribute_group armpmu_common_attr_group = {
+ .attrs = armpmu_common_attrs,
+};
+
static void armpmu_init(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
{
atomic_set(&armpmu->active_events, 0);
@@ -551,6 +570,8 @@ static void armpmu_init(struct arm_pmu *armpmu)
.filter_match = armpmu_filter_match,
.attr_groups = armpmu->attr_groups,
};
+ armpmu->attr_groups[ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_COMMON] =
+ &armpmu_common_attr_group;
}

/* Set at runtime when we know what CPU type we are. */
diff --git a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
index 8030814..4040b90 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct pmu_hw_events {
};

enum armpmu_attr_groups {
+ ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_COMMON,
ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_EVENTS,
ARMPMU_ATTR_GROUP_FORMATS,
ARMPMU_NR_ATTR_GROUPS
--
1.9.1