drivers/perf: arm_pmu: implement CPU_PM notifier
authorLorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:22:39 +0000 (18:22 +0000)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 14:37:06 +0000 (14:37 +0000)
commitda4e4f18afe0f3729d68f3785c5802f786d36e34
tree79bea24abaddb8f5c7ed32b763dbb182a5e072bb
parent94085fe570e7b87597d4695e6fa77d4256efd29e
drivers/perf: arm_pmu: implement CPU_PM notifier

When a CPU is suspended (either through suspend-to-RAM or CPUidle),
its PMU registers content can be lost, which means that counters
registers values that were initialized on power down entry have to be
reprogrammed on power-up to make sure the counters set-up is preserved
(ie on power-up registers take the reset values on Cold or Warm reset,
which can be architecturally UNKNOWN).

To guarantee seamless profiling conditions across a core power down
this patch adds a CPU PM notifier to ARM pmus, that upon CPU PM
entry/exit from low-power states saves/restores the pmu registers
set-up (by using the ARM perf API), so that the power-down/up cycle does
not affect the perf behaviour (apart from a black-out period between
power-up/down CPU PM notifications that is unavoidable).

Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c
include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h