[PATCH 0/5] arm64: Enable access to pmu registers by user-space

[Rob Herring]

This is resurrecting Raphael's series[1] to enable userspace counter
access. The following changes have been made from the last version:

The major change is support for heterogeneous systems with some
restrictions. Specifically, userspace must pin itself to like CPUs, open
a specific PMU by type, and use h/w specific events. The tests have been
reworked to demonstrate this.

Chained events are not supported. The problem with supporting chained
events was there's no way to distinguish between a chained event and a
native 64-bit counter. We could add some flag, but do self monitoring
processes really need that? Native 64-bit counters are supported if the
PMU h/w has support. As there's already an explicit ABI to request 64-bit
counters, userspace can request 64-bit counters and if user
access is not enabled, then it must retry with 32-bit counters.

There was a bug in that pmc_width was not set in the user page. The tests
now check for this.

The documentation has been converted to rST. I've added sections on
chained events and heterogeneous.

The tests have been expanded to test the cycle counter access.

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20190822144220.27860-1-raphael.gault@xxxxxxx/


Raphael Gault (5):
  perf: arm64: Add tests to check userspace access to hardware counters
  arm64: pmu: Add hook to handle pmu-related undefined instructions
  arm64: pmu: Add function implementation to update event index in
    userpage
  arm64: perf: Enable pmu counter direct access for perf event on armv8
  Documentation: arm64: Document PMU counters access from userspace

 Documentation/arm64/index.rst                 |   1 +
 .../arm64/perf_counter_user_access.rst        |  52 ++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu.h                  |   6 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/mmu_context.h          |   2 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/perf_event.h           |  14 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/perf_event.c                |  80 +++
 drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c                        |  38 ++
 include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h                  |   2 +
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/include/arch-tests.h    |  11 +
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/tests/Build             |   1 +
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/tests/arch-tests.c      |  12 +
 tools/perf/arch/arm64/tests/user-events.c     | 454 ++++++++++++++++++
 13 files changed, 675 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/perf_counter_user_access.rst
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/arch/arm64/tests/user-events.c

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