Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: perf: Preparatory work for Scorpion PMU support

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 02/20, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 06:24:08PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Do some things to make the Krait PMU support code generic enough
> > to be used by the Scorpion PMU support code.
> > 
> >  * Rename the venum register functions to be venum instead of krait
> >    specific because the same registers exist on Scorpion
> > 
> >  * Add a krait_decode_event() function to decode our Krait specific
> >    event encoding that's the same on Scorpion (modulo an extra region).
> > 
> >  * Drop krait from krait_clear_pmresrn_group() so it can be used
> >    by Scorpion code
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/kernel/perf_event_v7.c | 87 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> >  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +static void krait_decode_event(u32 event, unsigned int *region,
> > +		unsigned int *group, unsigned int *code, bool *venum, bool *cpu)
> > +{
> > +	if (region)
> > +		*region = (event >> 12) & 0xf;
> > +	if (group)
> > +		*group  = (event >> 0)  & 0xf;
> > +	if (code)
> > +		*code   = (event >> 4) & 0xff;
> > +	if (venum)
> > +		*venum  = !!(event & VENUM_EVENT);
> > +	if (cpu)
> > +		*cpu = !!(event & KRAIT_EVENT);
> > +}
> 
> Maybe worth sticking these fields in a struct? Failing that, just using
> macros for each one and using them in-line isn't so bad.
> 

Ok let's see how a macro goes. Is there any advantage either way?

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