Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf/core: Adding capability to disable PMUs event multiplexing

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:28:46PM -0800, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> Issue happens when the add and del are called too many times as seen
> with 6 event case.
> The PMU hardware control registers are programmed when add and del
> functions are called.
> For pmu->read no issues since no h/w issue with the data path.
> 
> Please suggest me, how can we fix this in back-end PMU driver without
> any perf core help?

As Mark already said, a (much) better description of the actual hardware
fail is required, but one possible solution would be to add a busy spin
delay when writing to the hardware registers.

Something like:

	u64 now, ts = this_cpu_read(tx2_throttle);

	while ((now = cycle_counter()) <= ts)
		cpu_relax();

	write_register(...);

	this_cpu_write(tx2_throttle, now + delay_ns);

Other known tricks include reading the register back until it contains
what you just wrote to it.

But really, first properly describe how your hardware is buggered.