From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755055AbcBVNk6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:40:58 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:56904 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754905AbcBVNk5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Feb 2016 08:40:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:41:05 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Jan Glauber Cc: Mark Rutland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] arm64/perf: Enable PMCR long cycle counter bit Message-ID: <20160222134105.GD31168@arm.com> References: <467597048eda3004bd69f1fbe3981aab111e00dd.1455810755.git.jglauber@cavium.com> <20160218173428.GE16883@arm.com> <20160222124514.GB766@hardcore> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160222124514.GB766@hardcore> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 01:45:14PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:34:28PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:50:13PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote: > > > With the long cycle counter bit (LC) disabled the cycle counter is not > > > working on ThunderX SOC (ThunderX only implements Aarch64). > > > Also, according to documentation LC == 0 is deprecated. > > > > > > To keep the code simple the patch does not introduce 64 bit wide counter > > > functions. Instead writing the cycle counter always sets the upper > > > 32 bits so overflow interrupts are generated as before. > > > > > > Original patch from Andrew Pinksi > > > > What does this mean? Do we need Andrew's S-o-B, or is this a fresh patch? > > Please let me know if I should repost or not, FWIW I got Andrew's S-o-B on the > patch. I think it's fine. This should all be in -next as of last Friday anyhow. Will