arm: perf: use IDR types for CPU PMUs
For systems with heterogeneous CPUs (e.g. big.LITTLE systems) the PMUs can be different in each cluster, and not all events can be migrated between clusters. To allow userspace to deal with this, it must be possible to address each PMU independently. This patch changes PMUs to be registered with dynamic (IDR) types, allowing them to be targeted individually. Each PMU's type can be found in ${SYSFS_ROOT}/bus/event_source/devices/${PMU_NAME}/type. From userspace, raw events can be targeted at a specific PMU: $ perf stat -e ${PMU_NAME}/config=V,config1=V1,.../ Doing this does not break existing tools which use existing perf types: when perf core can't find a PMU of matching type (in perf_init_event) it'll iterate over the set of all PMUs. If a compatible PMU exists, it'll be found eventually. If more than one compatible PMU exists, the event will be handled by whichever PMU happens to be earlier in the pmus list (which currently will be the last compatible PMU registered). Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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