This change adds support for POWER8 and POWER9 PMCs (bare metal and
pseries).
All PowerISA 2.07B non-random events are supported.
Implementation was based on that of PPC970.
Reviewed by: jhibbits
Sponsored by: Eldorado Research Institute (eldorado.org.br)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26110
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 2-Clause license, however the tool I
was using misidentified many licenses so this was mostly a manual - error
prone - task.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
This supports e500v1, e500v2, and e500mc. Tested only on e500v2, but the
performance counters are identical across all, with e500mc having some
additional events.
Relnotes: Yes
This also fixes asserts on removal of the module for the mpc74xx.
The PowerPC 970 processors have two different types of events: direct events
and indirect events. Thus far only direct events are supported. I included
some documentation in the driver on how indirect events work, but support is
for the future.
MFC after: 1 month