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powerpc: Add PPC_FEATURE_PSERIES_PERFMON_COMPAT 

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>
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Nathan Lynch 2008-07-10 01:06:57 +10:00 committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent fe9e8d5377
commit 0f47331475
2 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/cputable.c
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@ -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)

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include/asm-powerpc/cputable.h
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@ -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