Re: [PATCH RESEND v7 00/21] drivers/perf: apple_m1: Add Apple A7-A11, T2 SoC support

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 02:36:18AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM Nick Chan <towinchenmi@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This series adds support for the CPU PMU in the older Apple A7-A11, T2
> > SoCs. These PMUs may have a different event layout, less counters, or
> > deliver their interrupts via IRQ instead of a FIQ. Since some of those
> > older SoCs support 32-bit EL0, counting for 32-bit EL0 also need to
> > be enabled by the driver where applicable.
> >
> > Patch 1 adds the DT bindings.
> > Patch 2-7 prepares the driver to allow adding support for those
> > older SoCs.
> > Patch 8-12 adds support for the older SoCs.
> > Patch 13-21 are the DT changes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Chan <towinchenmi@gmail.com>
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> This is substantial work and it looks good to me. Do you know why
> there's been little progress on landing these patches? Buggy Apple ARM
> PMU support in the kernel has led to reworking the perf tool. It seems
> best that we can have the best drivers possible.

You reworked the perf tool to support these things? Why? These changes
are targetting chips in old iPhones afaict (as opposed to "Apple Silicon").
I think that (a) most people don't particularly care about them and (b)
they're not fully supported _anyway_ because of crazy stuff like [1].

Will

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909091425.16258-1-towinchenmi@gmail.com