From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: punit.agrawal@arm.com (Punit Agrawal) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:23:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bus: cci: move away from arm_pmu framework In-Reply-To: <1413826531-23462-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> (Mark Rutland's message of "Mon, 20 Oct 2014 18:35:31 +0100") References: <1413826531-23462-1-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> <1413826531-23462-2-git-send-email-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: <9hhzjcfeyza.fsf@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Mark, Mark Rutland writes: > The ARM CPU PMUs and the ARM CCI PMU are using the same framework > despite being substantially different in programming model, which makes > it difficult to handle either particularly well. > > This patch migrates the ARM CCI PMU driver away from the arm_pmu > framework, matching the style of the CCN PMU driver and other 'uncore' > PMU drivers. This enables better support for the CCI PMU (including > migration of events across CPUs across hotplug) and will allow for > refactoring of the arm_pmu framework to better support CPU PMUs. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland > Cc: Punit Agrawal Looks good! Acked-by: Punit Agrawal > Cc: Pawel Moll > Cc: Will Deacon [...]