Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] perf: arm_spe: Add format option for discard mode

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 04:22:48PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:28:55 +0000, James Clark wrote:
> > Discard mode (Armv8.6) is a way to enable SPE related PMU events without
> > the overhead of recording any data. Add a format option, tests and docs
> > for it.
> > 
> > In theory we could make the driver drop calls to allocate the aux buffer
> > when discard mode is enabled. This would give a small memory saving,
> > but I think there is potential to interfere with any tools that don't
> > expect this so I left the aux allocation untouched. Even old tools that
> > don't know about discard mode will be able to use it because we publish
> > the format option. Not allocating the aux buffer will have to be added
> > to tools which I've done in Perf.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Applied driver and docs patches to will (for-next/perf), thanks!

Picked the rest and added it to perf-tools-next,

Thanks,

- Arnaldo
 
> [1/5] perf: arm_spe: Add format option for discard mode
>       https://git.kernel.org/will/c/d28d95bc63cb
> [2/5] perf docs: arm_spe: Document new discard mode
>       https://git.kernel.org/will/c/ba113ecad81a
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Will
> 
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