Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v3 20/22] target/arm: PMU: Add instruction and cycle events

[Aaron Lindsay]

On Mar 18 23:48, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 03/16/2018 09:31 PM, Aaron Lindsay wrote:
> > The instruction event is only enabled when icount is used, cycles are
> > always supported. Always defining get_cycle_count (but altering its
> > behavior depending on CONFIG_USER_ONLY) allows us to remove some
> > CONFIG_USER_ONLY #defines throughout the rest of the code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Aaron Lindsay <address@hidden>
> > ---
> [...]>  #define SUPPORTED_EVENT_SENTINEL UINT16_MAX
> >  static const pm_event pm_events[] = {
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
> > +    { .number = 0x008, /* INST_RETIRED */
> 
> "Instruction architecturally executed" seems more explicit to me.

I've updated v4 to include this wording as well.

> > +      .supported = instructions_supported,
> > +      .get_count = instructions_get_count
> > +    },
> > +    { .number = 0x011, /* CPU_CYCLES */
> > +      .supported = event_always_supported,
> > +      .get_count = cycles_get_count
> > +    },
> > +#endif
> [...]

-Aaron

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