[PATCH -next] Documentation: arm64: fix amu.rst doc warnings

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Tue Apr 07 2020 - 23:54:01 EST


From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Fix bullet list formatting to eliminate doc warnings:

Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:26: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:60: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:81: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst:108: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ionela Voinescu <ionela.voinescu@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/arm64/amu.rst | 47 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- linux-next-20200407.orig/Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
+++ linux-next-20200407/Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ optional external memory-mapped interfac

Version 1 of the Activity Monitors architecture implements a counter group
of four fixed and architecturally defined 64-bit event counters.
- - CPU cycle counter: increments at the frequency of the CPU.
- - Constant counter: increments at the fixed frequency of the system
- clock.
- - Instructions retired: increments with every architecturally executed
- instruction.
- - Memory stall cycles: counts instruction dispatch stall cycles caused by
- misses in the last level cache within the clock domain.
+
+- CPU cycle counter: increments at the frequency of the CPU.
+- Constant counter: increments at the fixed frequency of the system
+ clock.
+- Instructions retired: increments with every architecturally executed
+ instruction.
+- Memory stall cycles: counts instruction dispatch stall cycles caused by
+ misses in the last level cache within the clock domain.

When in WFI or WFE these counters do not increment.

@@ -57,11 +58,12 @@ counters, only the presence of the exten

Firmware (code running at higher exception levels, e.g. arm-tf) support is
needed to:
- - Enable access for lower exception levels (EL2 and EL1) to the AMU
- registers.
- - Enable the counters. If not enabled these will read as 0.
- - Save/restore the counters before/after the CPU is being put/brought up
- from the 'off' power state.
+
+- Enable access for lower exception levels (EL2 and EL1) to the AMU
+ registers.
+- Enable the counters. If not enabled these will read as 0.
+- Save/restore the counters before/after the CPU is being put/brought up
+ from the 'off' power state.

When using kernels that have this feature enabled but boot with broken
firmware the user may experience panics or lockups when accessing the
@@ -78,10 +80,11 @@ are not trapped in EL2/EL3.

The fixed counters of AMUv1 are accessible though the following system
register definitions:
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CORE_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CONST_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_INST_RET_EL0
- - SYS_AMEVCNTR0_MEM_STALL_EL0
+
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CORE_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_CONST_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_INST_RET_EL0
+- SYS_AMEVCNTR0_MEM_STALL_EL0

Auxiliary platform specific counters can be accessed using
SYS_AMEVCNTR1_EL0(n), where n is a value between 0 and 15.
@@ -93,9 +96,10 @@ Userspace access
----------------

Currently, access from userspace to the AMU registers is disabled due to:
- - Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed in
- secure mode.
- - Purpose: AMU counters are intended for system management use.
+
+- Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed in
+ secure mode.
+- Purpose: AMU counters are intended for system management use.

Also, the presence of the feature is not visible to userspace.

@@ -105,8 +109,9 @@ Virtualization

Currently, access from userspace (EL0) and kernelspace (EL1) on the KVM
guest side is disabled due to:
- - Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed
- by other guests or the host.
+
+- Security reasons: they might expose information about code executed
+ by other guests or the host.

Any attempt to access the AMU registers will result in an UNDEFINED
exception being injected into the guest.