From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:46:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH V1] perf: qcom: Add L3 cache PMU driver In-Reply-To: References: <1458333422-8963-1-git-send-email-agustinv@codeaurora.org> <20160321103507.GB17326@leverpostej> <09ca2b70ae43432623cfbac374da1784@codeaurora.org> <56F26FF1.90002@arm.com> Message-ID: <20160323144611.GB6344@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:36:14AM -0400, agustinv at codeaurora.org wrote: > ACPI events *are* existing abstractions within ACPI-based systems and the > mechanism works across OSes. Correction; it never works anywhere. Its a nice idea on paper, but when you're stuck with a firmware that hands you random values pulled from a crack monkey's behind you have to then hack around, you wish you had done the sane thing and stuffed it in code you can actually fix.