Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU counters

Jan Glauber
2017-07-26T15:45:32Z

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:35:02PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:13:14PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > I'm also looking for CPU implementor (MIDR), I could check for the model
> > too but I still need to detect devices based on PCI IDs as the model
> > check is not sufficient here (only multi-socket ThunderX has OCX TLK
> > devices).
>
> So what does that mean? The only way to load a PMU driver and an EDAC
> driver is the PCI ID of the memory controller? No other way?

I already tried multiple ways to load the drivers, so far with limited
success :)

The PMU/EDAC devices are all PCI devices do I need the 'struct pci_dev *'.
I'm not aware of other ways to access these devices. Please enlighten
me if I'm missing something.

--Jan