Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] perf: arm64: Support for Hisilicon SoC Hardware event counters

[Anurup M <anurupvasu@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 10 January 2017 11:13 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 01:47:52AM -0500, Anurup M wrote:
>> ToDo:
>> 1) The counter overflow handling is currently unsupported in this
>>     patch series.
>  From a quick scan of the patches, I see mention of an interrupt in a
> comment the driver, but there's noething in the DT binding.
>
> Is there an overflow interrupt at all?
>
> Or do you need to implement polling to avoid overflow?
>
> This is a prerequisite for merging the driver.

The HiP0x chips support counter overflow interrupt for L3C and MN.
The HiP05/06 interrupts in CPU die use Hisilicon mbigen-v1, but the 
mbigen-v1
driver is not available in mainline. So the L3C and MN PMU in HiP05/06 
cannot
support counter overflow in driver.
As the support for HiP05/06 are not the prime focus now. I shall remove 
them
from the patch series and shall plan to include them later.

For HiP07, as it use mbigen-v2, which is in mainline, I shall include 
the overflow
handling support in the next revision (V4 series).

Thanks,
Anurup

> Thanks,
> Mark.