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Commit c5b15ddf authored by Robin Murphy's avatar Robin Murphy Committed by Will Deacon
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perf/arm-cmn: Make cycle counts less surprising



By default, CMN has automatic clock-gating with the implication that
a DTC's cycle counter may not increment while the DTC is sufficiently
idle. Given that we may have up to 4 DTCs to choose from when scheduling
a cycles event, this may potentially lead to surprising results if
trying to measure metrics based on activity in a different DTC domain
from where cycles end up being counted. Furthermore, since the details
of internal clock gating are not documented, we can't even reason about
what "active" cycles for a DTC actually mean relative to the activity of
other nodes within the same nominal DTC domain.

Make the reasonable assumption that if the user wants to count cycles,
they almost certainly want to count all of the cycles, and disable clock
gating while a DTC's cycle counter is in use.

Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy's avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c47cfdc09e907b1d7753d142a7e659982cceb246.1725296395.git.robin.murphy@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
parent ff436cee
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