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+/*
+ * Performance counter support for e500 family processors.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2008-2009 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corporation.
+ * Copyright 2010 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
+ * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/perf_event.h>
+#include <asm/reg.h>
+#include <asm/cputable.h>
+
+/*
+ * Map of generic hardware event types to hardware events
+ * Zero if unsupported
+ */
+static int e500_generic_events[] = {
+	[PERF_COUNT_HW_CPU_CYCLES] = 1,
+	[PERF_COUNT_HW_INSTRUCTIONS] = 2,
+	[PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_MISSES] = 41, /* Data L1 cache reloads */
+	[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_INSTRUCTIONS] = 12,
+	[PERF_COUNT_HW_BRANCH_MISSES] = 15,
+};
+
+#define C(x)	PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_##x
+
+/*
+ * Table of generalized cache-related events.
+ * 0 means not supported, -1 means nonsensical, other values
+ * are event codes.
+ */
+static int e500_cache_events[C(MAX)][C(OP_MAX)][C(RESULT_MAX)] = {
+	/*
+	 * D-cache misses are not split into read/write/prefetch;
+	 * use raw event 41.
+	 */
+	[C(L1D)] = {		/* 	RESULT_ACCESS	RESULT_MISS */
+		[C(OP_READ)] = {	27,		0	},
+		[C(OP_WRITE)] = {	28,		0	},
+		[C(OP_PREFETCH)] = {	29,		0	},
+	},
+	[C(L1I)] = {		/* 	RESULT_ACCESS	RESULT_MISS */
+		[C(OP_READ)] = {	2,		60	},
+		[C(OP_WRITE)] = {	-1,		-1	},
+		[C(OP_PREFETCH)] = {	0,		0	},
+	},
+	/*
+	 * Assuming LL means L2, it's not a good match for this model.
+	 * It allocates only on L1 castout or explicit prefetch, and
+	 * does not have separate read/write events (but it does have
+	 * separate instruction/data events).
+	 */
+	[C(LL)] = {		/* 	RESULT_ACCESS	RESULT_MISS */
+		[C(OP_READ)] = {	0,		0	},
+		[C(OP_WRITE)] = {	0,		0	},
+		[C(OP_PREFETCH)] = {	0,		0	},
+	},
+	/*
+	 * There are data/instruction MMU misses, but that's a miss on
+	 * the chip's internal level-one TLB which is probably not
+	 * what the user wants.  Instead, unified level-two TLB misses
+	 * are reported here.
+	 */
+	[C(DTLB)] = {		/* 	RESULT_ACCESS	RESULT_MISS */
+		[C(OP_READ)] = {	26,		66	},
+		[C(OP_WRITE)] = {	-1,		-1	},
+		[C(OP_PREFETCH)] = {	-1,		-1	},
+	},
+	[C(BPU)] = {		/* 	RESULT_ACCESS	RESULT_MISS */
+		[C(OP_READ)] = {	12,		15 	},
+		[C(OP_WRITE)] = {	-1,		-1	},
+		[C(OP_PREFETCH)] = {	-1,		-1	},
+	},
+};
+
+static int num_events = 128;
+
+/* Upper half of event id is PMLCb, for threshold events */
+static u64 e500_xlate_event(u64 event_id)
+{
+	u32 event_low = (u32)event_id;
+	u64 ret;
+
+	if (event_low >= num_events)
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = FSL_EMB_EVENT_VALID;
+
+	if (event_low >= 76 && event_low <= 81) {
+		ret |= FSL_EMB_EVENT_RESTRICTED;
+		ret |= event_id &
+		       (FSL_EMB_EVENT_THRESHMUL | FSL_EMB_EVENT_THRESH);
+	} else if (event_id &
+	           (FSL_EMB_EVENT_THRESHMUL | FSL_EMB_EVENT_THRESH)) {
+		/* Threshold requested on non-threshold event */
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static struct fsl_emb_pmu e500_pmu = {
+	.name			= "e500 family",
+	.n_counter		= 4,
+	.n_restricted		= 2,
+	.xlate_event		= e500_xlate_event,
+	.n_generic		= ARRAY_SIZE(e500_generic_events),
+	.generic_events		= e500_generic_events,
+	.cache_events		= &e500_cache_events,
+};
+
+static int init_e500_pmu(void)
+{
+	if (!cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type)
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	if (!strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/e500mc"))
+		num_events = 256;
+	else if (strcmp(cur_cpu_spec->oprofile_cpu_type, "ppc/e500"))
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	return register_fsl_emb_pmu(&e500_pmu);
+}
+
+arch_initcall(init_e500_pmu);