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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	Nagarjuna Kristam <nkristam@nvidia.com>,
	Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@nvidia.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: tegra186: Add missing CPU PMUs
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:27:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <59f8937f14ce485558ec957d0f73ba7d@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201110182212.GI2297135@ulmo>

On 2020-11-10 18:22, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:08:31PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 2020-11-10 17:36, Thierry Reding wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:58:51AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> > > Add the description of CPU PMUs for both the Denver and A57 clusters,
>> > > which enables the perf subsystem.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > >
>> > > +	pmu_denver {
>> > > +		compatible = "nvidia,denver-pmu", "arm,armv8-pmuv3";
>> >
>> > checkpatch complains that this isn't documented. Did I miss the DT
>> > bindings patch or do we not have one for this?
>> 
>> We don't. But I don't think adding a compatible string for each
>> and every micro-architecture makes much sense unless we have something
>> useful to add to that compatible string. Such as a full description
>> of the implementation specific events.
> 
> I'm wondering if this isn't going to upset Rob's json-schema bot and
> make him mad.

Rob going mad? Never! ;-)

If you *really* want it, I'll respin this patch with the Denver 
compatible
added to Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/pmu.yaml.

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-10 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13  9:58 [PATCH] arm64: tegra186: Add missing CPU PMUs Marc Zyngier
2020-11-10 17:36 ` Thierry Reding
2020-11-10 18:08   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-10 18:22     ` Thierry Reding
2020-11-10 18:27       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]

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