ARM: 5899/2: arm: provide a mechanism to reserve performance counters

To add support for perf events and to allow the hardware counters to be
shared with oprofile, we need a way to reserve access to the pmu
(performance monitor unit). Platforms with PMU interrupts should
register the interrupts in arch/arm/kernel/pmu.c

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
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+/*
+ *  linux/arch/arm/include/asm/pmu.h
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 2009 picoChip Designs Ltd, Jamie Iles
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ARM_PMU_H__
+#define __ARM_PMU_H__
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_PMU
+
+struct pmu_irqs {
+	const int   *irqs;
+	int	    num_irqs;
+};
+
+/**
+ * reserve_pmu() - reserve the hardware performance counters
+ *
+ * Reserve the hardware performance counters in the system for exclusive use.
+ * The 'struct pmu_irqs' for the system is returned on success, ERR_PTR()
+ * encoded error on failure.
+ */
+extern const struct pmu_irqs *
+reserve_pmu(void);
+
+/**
+ * release_pmu() - Relinquish control of the performance counters
+ *
+ * Release the performance counters and allow someone else to use them.
+ * Callers must have disabled the counters and released IRQs before calling
+ * this. The 'struct pmu_irqs' returned from reserve_pmu() must be passed as
+ * a cookie.
+ */
+extern int
+release_pmu(const struct pmu_irqs *irqs);
+
+/**
+ * init_pmu() - Initialise the PMU.
+ *
+ * Initialise the system ready for PMU enabling. This should typically set the
+ * IRQ affinity and nothing else. The users (oprofile/perf events etc) will do
+ * the actual hardware initialisation.
+ */
+extern int
+init_pmu(void);
+
+#else /* CONFIG_CPU_HAS_PMU */
+
+static inline const struct pmu_irqs *
+reserve_pmu(void)
+{
+	return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+}
+
+static inline int
+release_pmu(const struct pmu_irqs *irqs)
+{
+	return -ENODEV;
+}
+
+static inline int
+init_pmu(void)
+{
+	return -ENODEV;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_CPU_HAS_PMU */
+
+#endif /* __ARM_PMU_H__ */