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2StarFive StarLink Performance Monitor Unit (PMU)
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5StarFive StarLink Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) exists within the
6StarLink Coherent Network on Chip (CNoC) that connects multiple CPU
7clusters with an L3 memory system.
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9The uncore PMU supports overflow interrupt, up to 16 programmable 64bit
10event counters, and an independent 64bit cycle counter.
11The PMU can only be accessed via Memory Mapped I/O and are common to the
12cores connected to the same PMU.
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14Driver exposes supported PMU events in sysfs "events" directory under::
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16  /sys/bus/event_source/devices/starfive_starlink_pmu/events/
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18Driver exposes cpu used to handle PMU events in sysfs "cpumask" directory
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21  /sys/bus/event_source/devices/starfive_starlink_pmu/cpumask/
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23Driver describes the format of config (event ID) in sysfs "format" directory
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26  /sys/bus/event_source/devices/starfive_starlink_pmu/format/
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28Example of perf usage::
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30	$ perf list
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32	starfive_starlink_pmu/cycles/                      [Kernel PMU event]
33	starfive_starlink_pmu/read_hit/                    [Kernel PMU event]
34	starfive_starlink_pmu/read_miss/                   [Kernel PMU event]
35	starfive_starlink_pmu/read_request/                [Kernel PMU event]
36	starfive_starlink_pmu/release_request/             [Kernel PMU event]
37	starfive_starlink_pmu/write_hit/                   [Kernel PMU event]
38	starfive_starlink_pmu/write_miss/                  [Kernel PMU event]
39	starfive_starlink_pmu/write_request/               [Kernel PMU event]
40	starfive_starlink_pmu/writeback/                   [Kernel PMU event]
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43	$ perf stat -a -e /starfive_starlink_pmu/cycles/ sleep 1
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45Sampling is not supported. As a result, "perf record" is not supported.
46Attaching to a task is not supported, only system-wide counting is supported.
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