PMU counters for Cortex-A78 not working correctly

[Umair Hashim]

I am seeing an issue with the Cortex-A78 PMU counters on the Genio1200-evk.

Linux perf reports <not counted> for Cortex-A78 PMUs when I run the following commands:

taskset -c 7 perf stat -e cycles sleep 5
taskset -c 7 perf stat -r r11 sleep 5

Infact none of the standard PMU events on the Cortex-A78 work when using the raw PMU event register values such as:

-e r08
-e r11
-e r13
:
...... etc.

I also see this behaviour when an application using libpfm4 OR perf_event_open() API is pinned to one of the 4xCortex-A78 on the board.

When I run the above perf commands and applications pinned to the Cortex-A55 cores the PMU events get reported correctly.

Please let me know if you need more details.

Kind regards,
Umair