Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 09/14] Implement remaining PMU functionality

[Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>]

Hi Alistair,

On 02/02/2016 04:22 PM, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Christopher Covington
> <cov@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> This adds logic to increment PMEVCNTR's based on different event inputs,
>> implements all remaining CP registers, and triggers an interrupt on
>> event overflow.
> 
> We (Xilinx) need parts of this patch to avoid kernel panics when
> booting the 4.4 Linux kernel. Have you done any more work on it? If
> you can send out a pach set I'm happy to have a look at it.

This issue sounds related to Lorenzo Piersali's patch arm64: kernel: fix
PMUv3 registers unconditional access.

As for the status of our TCG PMU patches, unfortunately, last I recall,
I was writing some kvm-unit-tests that Drew wanted me to test against
the KVM PMU, which required real hardware. I got distracted with using
an upstream kernel and a certain distribution on the hardware and have
yet to return.

Cov

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