From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sudeep.holla@arm.com (Sudeep Holla) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:00:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] arm-cci400: PMU monitoring support on ARM64 In-Reply-To: <1425295754-13376-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> References: <1425295754-13376-1-git-send-email-suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Message-ID: <54F5DA8C.7080609@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 02/03/15 11:29, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > From: "Suzuki K. Poulose" > > This series enables the PMU monitoring support for CCI400 on ARM64. > The existing CCI400 driver code is a mix of PMU driver and the MCPM > driver code. The MCPM driver is only used on ARM(32) and contains > arm32 assembly and hence can't be built on ARM64. This patch splits > the code to > > - ARM_CCI400_PORT_CTRL driver - depends on ARM && V7 > - ARM_CCI400_PMU driver > > Accessing the Peripheral ID2 register(PID2) on CCI-400, to detect > the revision of the chipset, is a secure operation. Hence, it prevents > us from running this on non-secure platforms. The issue is overcome by > explicitly mentioning the revision number of the CCI PMU in the device tree > binding. The device-tree binding has been updated with the new bindings. > > i.e, arm-cci-400-pmu,r0 => revision 0 > arm-cci-400-pmu,r1 => revision 1 > arm-cci-400-pmu => (old) DEPRECATED > > The old binding has been DEPRECATED and must be used only on ARM32 > system with secure access. We don't have a reliable dynamic way to detect > if the system is running secure. This series tries to use the best safe > method by relying on the availability of MCPM(as it was prior to the series). > It is upto the MCPM platform driver to decide, if the system is secure before > it goes ahead and registers its drivers and pokes the CCI. This series doesn't > address/solve the problem of MCPM. I will be happy to use a better approach, > if there is any. > > Tested on (non-secure)TC2 and Juno. > For the series: Tested-by: Sudeep Holla (on secure/MCPM TC2) Regards, Sudeep