Re: acpi: Remove ETM from AMBA scan list (was Re: [PATCH V6 6/6] coresight: etm4x: Add ACPI support in platform driver)

[Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 04:33:26PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 10:18 PM Steve Clevenger OS
> <scclevenger@os.amperecomputing.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Rafael, Len,
> >
> > On 7/24/2023 9:25 AM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > > Hi Rafael/Len
> > >
> > > On 19/07/2023 11:11, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > >> Rafael, Len
> > >>
> > >> Ping (packets 6, lost 100%).
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 10/07/2023 17:40, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> > >>> Rafael, Len
> > >>>
> > >>> On 10/07/2023 07:25, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > >>>> From: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Drop ETM4X ACPI ID from the AMBA ACPI device list, and instead just
> > >>>> move it
> > >>>> inside the new ACPI devices list detected and used via platform driver.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
> > >>>> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
> > >>>> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
> > >>>> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> > >>>> Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
> > >>>> Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
> > >>>> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> > >>>> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
> > >>>> Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
> > >>>> Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
> > >>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> > >>>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > >>>> Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> (for ACPI specific
> > >>>> changes)
> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
> > >>>
> > >>> We would like to queue this via coresight tree. The acpi_amba bits have
> > >>> been reviewed by Sudeep. Please could you give us an Ack, if you are
> > >>> happy with the proposal ?
> > >>>
> > >
> > > Please could one of you respond to this patch ? We are blocked on your
> > > Ack for queuing this. There are machines out there, which rely on this
> > > patch to use Arm self-hosted tracing based on CoreSight.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Suzuki
> >
> > Ampere Computing AmpereOne machines rely on this patch series to enable
> > System Register Access to the ETMv4. Ampere removed the ETM MMIO
> > descriptions from our CoreSight ACPI to use this.
> >
> > Suzuki's e-mail requests for review/Ack of this patch thread date back
> > to May 30.
> 
> I've just talked to Suzuki about this:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-acpi/20230726140515.368981-1-suzuki.poulose@arm.com
> 
> This patch has received a Reviewed-by from Sudeep which for all
> purposes should be sufficient for any ARM-related ACPI material that
> doesn't affect any other architectures.  An ACK from me (or Len for
> that matter) would not make any real difference from the technical
> perspective.
> 
> I would appreciate assigning an official ARM maintainer to acpi_amba.c
> so as to avoid such unnecessary delays in the future.

Ah I just crossed and replied on other thread. I will soon send an update
to add this file under Arm ACPI for the maintenance.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep