aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch/arm
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2011-10-03 18:30:53 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2011-10-15 11:04:22 +0100
commit29a541f6c1f6e4a85628bb86071b9e72c9f8be2c (patch)
tree9f132fd63c08266901f3427d624891ac7e2da7b7 /arch/arm
parent002ea9eefec98dada56fd5f8e432a4e8570c2a26 (diff)
ARM: 7117/1: perf: fix HW_CACHE_* events on Cortex-A9
Using COHERENT_LINE_{MISS,HIT} for cache misses and references respectively is completely wrong. Instead, use the L1D events which are a better and more useful approximation despite ignoring instruction traffic. Reported-by: Alasdair Grant <alasdair.grant@arm.com> Reported-by: Matt Horsnell <matt.horsnell@arm.com> Reported-by: Michael Williams <michael.williams@arm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Jean Pihet <j-pihet@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
index 4c851834f68..6be3e2e4d83 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c
@@ -321,8 +321,8 @@ static const unsigned armv7_a9_perf_map[PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX] = {
[PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_CPU_CYCLES,
[PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] =
ARMV7_PERFCTR_INST_OUT_OF_RENAME_STAGE,
- [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_COHERENT_LINE_HIT,
- [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_COHERENT_LINE_MISS,
+ [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_REFERENCES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_DCACHE_ACCESS,
+ [PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_DCACHE_REFILL,
[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_PC_WRITE,
[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_PC_BRANCH_MIS_PRED,
[PERF_COUNT_HW_BUS_CYCLES] = ARMV7_PERFCTR_CLOCK_CYCLES,