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powerpc/perf: Add support for caps under sysfs in powerpc
authorAthira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 20 May 2022 08:46:29 +0000 (14:16 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:39:54 +0000 (10:39 +1000)
commit7c603531bab55393d7e9439d7d5f66c4628c63bf
tree9702c439c50411724c23a731eee6fa7692fb2b3d
parent5abfc14ed167b81eb8c1900679605586ed53d0c7
powerpc/perf: Add support for caps under sysfs in powerpc

Add caps support under "/sys/bus/event_source/devices/<pmu>/"
for powerpc. This directory can be used to expose some of the
specific features that powerpc PMU supports to the user.
Example: pmu_name. The name of PMU registered will depend on
platform, say power9 or power10 or it could be Generic Compat
PMU.

Currently the only way to know which is the registered
PMU is from the dmesg logs. But clearing the dmesg will make it
difficult to know exact PMU backend used. And even extracting
from dmesg will be complicated, as we need  to parse the dmesg
logs and add filters for pmu name. Whereas by exposing it via
caps will make it easy as we just need to directly read it from
the sysfs.

Add a caps directory to /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/
for power8, power9, power10 and generic compat PMU in respective
PMU driver code. Update the pmu_name file under caps folder
in core-book3s using "attr_update".

The information exposed currently:
 - pmu_name : Underlying PMU name from the driver

Example result with power9 pmu:

 # ls /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps
pmu_name

 # cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name
POWER9

Signed-off-by: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220520084630.15181-1-atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
arch/powerpc/perf/core-book3s.c
arch/powerpc/perf/generic-compat-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/perf/power10-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/perf/power8-pmu.c
arch/powerpc/perf/power9-pmu.c