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Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 05:49:12PM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> This patch adds the transaction hooks for CCI PMU, which can be
> later exploited to amortise the cost of writing the counters for
> CCI-500 PMU.
> 
> We keep track of only the 'ADD' transactions. While we are in a
> transaction, we keep track of the indices allocated for the events
> and delay the following operations until the transaction is committed.
>  1) Programming the event on the counter
>  2) Enabling the counter
>  3) Setting the period for the event.

So that's not really what the txn interface is for, its meant to
amortize event scheduling.

The above doesn't look like it has a failure case, in which case you can
achieve the same simpler, using pmu::pmu_{dis,en}able().

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[PATCHv4 00/12] arm-cci: PMU updates "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 09/12] arm-cci: Provide hook for writing to PMU counters "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 08/12] arm-cci: Add routines to save/restore all counters "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 11/12] arm-cci500: Rearrange PMU driver for code sharing with CCI-550 PMU "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 18:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 10/12] arm-cci: CCI-500: Work around PMU counter writes "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 02/12] arm-cci: Refactor pmu_write_counter "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 01/12] arm-cci: Define CCI counter period "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 06/12] arm-cci: Refactor CCI PMU enable/disable methods "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-17 19:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-18 11:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-18 11:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions "Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-18 12:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 05/12] arm-cci: PMU: Add support for transactions Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-12-18 12:50 +0100
  [PATCH v4 07/12] arm-cci: Get the status of a counter "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 03/12] arm-cci: Group writes to counter "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 04/12] arm-cci: Fix the flags for pmu_start called from pmu_add "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 12/12] arm-cci: CoreLink CCI-550 PMU driver "Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> - 2015-12-17 19:00 +0100

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