Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Robin Murphy
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It turns out the optimisation implemented by commit 4f2c3872 is totally broken, since all the places that consume hw->dtcs_used for events other than cycle count are still not expecting it to be sparsely populated, and fail to read all the relevant DTC counters correctly if so. If implemented correctly, the optimisation potentially saves up to 3 register reads per event update, which is reasonably significant for events targeting a single node, but still not worth a massive amount of additional code complexity overall. Getting it right within the current design looks a fair bit more involved than it was ever intended to be, so let's just make a functional revert which restores the old behaviour while still backporting easily. Fixes: 4f2c3872 ("perf/arm-cmn: Optimise DTC counter accesses") Reported-by:Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka@os.amperecomputing.com> Signed-off-by:
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b41bb4ed7283c3d8400ce5cf5e6ec94915e6750f.1674498637.git.robin.murphy@arm.com Signed-off-by:
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>