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| From | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events |
| Date | 2016-02-18 12:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r3uWu-4Ju-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qY9fY-4Sx-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <qY9fY-4Sx-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2xjJ-5z4-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <r2xD4-5Wh-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <r3t4n-3rL-31@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:13:07AM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:06:13PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:40:37PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > > > > The implemented Cortex A57 events are not A57 specific. > > > > They are recommended by ARM and can be found on other > > > > ARMv8 SOCs like Cavium ThunderX too. Therefore move > > > > these events to the common PMUv3 table. > > > > > > I can't find anything in the architecture that suggests these event > > > numbers are necessarily portable between implementations. Am I missing > > > something? > > > > Aha, I just noticed appendix K3.1 (silly me for missing it...). > > > > Lemme check whether or not that mandates that those encodings can't be > > used for wildly different things. > > To me it looks like we would just have duplicated code without the patch, > and at least the event types (e.g. L1D_CACHE_RD) should be identical > across implementations. > > But I don't care too much, so please tell me if should drop the patch or > keep it. Tell you what then -- how about we simply rename those to ARMV8_IMPDEF_* instead of ARMV8_A57_*? That way, we can easily identify them as distinct from the architected events if we need to in future. Will
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Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-15 20:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-15 21:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com> - 2016-02-18 10:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-18 12:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@caviumnetworks.com> - 2016-02-18 14:50 +0100
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