Re: [PATCH v10 RESEND 7/9] perf: RISC-V: add support for SSE event

[Conor Dooley]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 07:15:04PM +0800, Zhanpeng Zhang wrote:
> From: Clément Léger <cleger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Register a handler for the local PMU overflow SSE event so that RISC-V
> perf can receive overflows even when normal S-mode interrupts are masked.
> Reuse the existing overflow handler and pass it the interrupted pt_regs
> rebuilt by the architecture SSE entry path.
> 
> Select the delivery mechanism once during PMU probe. Prefer SSE when its
> event can be registered and enabled. If the extension or PMU event is
> explicitly unsupported, use the ordinary PMU interrupt. Do not enable the
> interrupt after any other SSE setup failure or when a crash kernel may
> have inherited firmware state. Install the PMU enable and disable
> callbacks only after SSE delivery becomes active.
> 
> Keep the local PMU SSE event disabled across CPU power management. On
> entry, the generic SSE notifier masks the hart before the lower-priority
> PMU notifier disables the event and stops the counters. On exit, the SSE
> notifier first unmasks the hart while the event remains disabled. The PMU
> notifier then restores counters and event userpage state before enabling
> the event. An unmask failure stops the notifier chain and leaves the
> counters stopped. Ordinary PMU interrupts retain their existing notifier
> ordering.
> 
> An SSE overflow can arrive as soon as the event is enabled during probe.
> Publish the counter mask before SSE setup, so an early handler can stop
> the counter source even before perf starts admitting normal samples.
> After a real overflow, restart only counters whose perf state is still
> running. Honor a non-zero return from perf_event_overflow() and leave
> throttled events stopped.
> 
> Guest attribution is not part of this version. Detect an interrupted guest
> from hstatus.SPV and skip its sample while still updating the period and
> counter state, rather than exposing guest state as a host sample.
> 
> The perf PMU callbacks cannot return errors. If an SSE transition or
> interrupted-context read fails, latch the failure per CPU and stop its
> mapped events through the normal perf state transitions. Do not reset the
> firmware counter mapping behind perf, restart a failed event, or attempt a
> runtime switch to IRQ delivery.
> 
> During cleanup, close callback admission and synchronously drain each CPU
> before disabling and unregistering the SSE event. If firmware refuses the
> cleanup, stop the counter source and transfer the event to the SSE core so
> later CPU hotplug or shutdown processing can retry without using freed PMU
> callback state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <cleger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Himanshu Chauhan <himanshu.chauhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Chauhan <himanshu.chauhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Co-developed-by: Zhanpeng Zhang <zhangzhanpeng.jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zhanpeng Zhang <zhangzhanpeng.jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/arch/riscv/index.rst     |   1 +
>  Documentation/arch/riscv/pmu-sse.rst   |  55 +++
>  MAINTAINERS                            |   1 +
>  drivers/firmware/riscv/riscv_sbi_sse.c |   9 +
>  drivers/perf/Kconfig                   |  11 +
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu.c               |  14 +-
>  drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c           | 540 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/perf/riscv_pmu.h         |  20 +-
>  include/linux/riscv_sbi_sse.h          |   6 +
>  9 files changed, 564 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/arch/riscv/pmu-sse.rst

Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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