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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 4/5] arm64/perf: Enable PMCR long cycle counter bit
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:34:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160218173428.GE16883@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467597048eda3004bd69f1fbe3981aab111e00dd.1455810755.git.jglauber@cavium.com>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:50:13PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote:
> With the long cycle counter bit (LC) disabled the cycle counter is not
> working on ThunderX SOC (ThunderX only implements Aarch64).
> Also, according to documentation LC == 0 is deprecated.
> 
> To keep the code simple the patch does not introduce 64 bit wide counter
> functions. Instead writing the cycle counter always sets the upper
> 32 bits so overflow interrupts are generated as before.
> 
> Original patch from Andrew Pinksi <Andrew.Pinksi@caviumnetworks.com>

What does this mean? Do we need Andrew's S-o-B, or is this a fresh patch?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-18 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 16:50 [PATCH v4 0/5] Cavium ThunderX PMU support Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] arm64/perf: Add Cavium ThunderX PMU support Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] arm64: dts: Add Cavium ThunderX specific PMU Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 17:32   ` Will Deacon
2016-02-18 18:37     ` David Daney
2016-02-22 12:40     ` Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] arm64/perf: Enable PMCR long cycle counter bit Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 17:34   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2016-02-18 18:28     ` Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 18:57     ` David Daney
2016-02-22 12:45     ` Jan Glauber
2016-02-22 13:41       ` Will Deacon
2016-02-29 15:39   ` Will Deacon
2016-03-01  7:21     ` Jan Glauber
2016-03-01 15:10     ` Jan Glauber
2016-02-18 16:50 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] arm64/perf: Extend event mask for ARMv8.1 Jan Glauber

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