arm64: perf: Allow more than one cycle counter to be used
Currently: $ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true Performance counter stats for 'true': 2,24,699 cycles:u <not counted> cycles:k (0.00%) 0.000788087 seconds time elapsed We can not count more than one cycle counter in one instance,because we allow to map cycle counter into PMCCNTR_EL0 only. However, if I did not miss anything then specification do not prohibit to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0 for cycle count as well. Modify the code so that it still prefers to use PMCCNTR_EL0 for cycle counter, however allow to use PMEVCNTR<n>_EL0 if PMCCNTR_EL0 is already in use. After this patch: $ perf stat -e cycles:u -e cycles:k true Performance counter stats for 'true': 2,17,310 cycles:u 7,40,009 cycles:k 0.000764149 seconds time elapsed Signed-off-by: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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