linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v9 0/7] Cavium ARM64 uncore PMU support

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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2017 13:38:03 +0200
From:   Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v9 0/7] Cavium ARM64 uncore PMU support

So what about the general idea with the wrapper, does this look sane?
Any objections to that?

thanks,
Jan

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:12:31PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> I'm posting this as RFC following this discussion:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=150099526923838&w=2
> 
> I've implemented the wrapper for the PCI devices and put it under
> drivers/soc/cavium which I found more appropriate than drivers/misc.
> 
> I was not able to find a way to build the EDAC driver and the PMU driver
> with all combinations (builtin and module) so I limited the build options
> to module only. The problem is that the select from EDAC or PMU
> sets the wrappers build type to whatever EDAC or PMU choose.
> But all parts must be either built-in or modules, having the wrapper
> builtin and calling into module code will not work. If there is a better
> solution please let me know.
> 
> The PMU code is the same as in v8.
> 
> Add support for various PMU counters found on the Cavium ThunderX and
> OcteonTx SoC.
> 
> The PMU driver provides common "uncore" functions to avoid code duplication
> and support adding more device PMUs (like L2 cache) in the future.
> 
> Changes to v8:
> - Wrapper for PCI devices
> 
> Jan Glauber (7):
>   edac: thunderx: Remove suspend/resume support
>   edac,soc: thunderx: Add wrapper for EDAC LMC PCI device
>   edac,soc: thunderx: Add wrapper for EDAC OCX PCI device
>   perf: export perf_event_update_userpage()
>   perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU counters
>   perf: cavium: Support transmit-link PMU counters
>   perf: cavium: Add Documentation
> 
>  Documentation/perf/cavium-pmu.txt |  75 +++++
>  drivers/edac/Kconfig              |   3 +
>  drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c      |  92 +-----
>  drivers/perf/Kconfig              |  15 +
>  drivers/perf/Makefile             |   1 +
>  drivers/perf/cavium_pmu.c         | 680 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/soc/Kconfig               |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/Makefile              |   1 +
>  drivers/soc/cavium/Kconfig        |  14 +
>  drivers/soc/cavium/Makefile       |   2 +
>  drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_lmc.c   |  53 +++
>  drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_ocx.c   |  49 +++
>  include/linux/cpuhotplug.h        |   1 +
>  include/linux/soc/cavium/lmc.h    |  12 +
>  include/linux/soc/cavium/ocx.h    |  12 +
>  kernel/events/core.c              |   1 +
>  16 files changed, 933 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/perf/cavium-pmu.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/perf/cavium_pmu.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_lmc.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_ocx.c
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/cavium/lmc.h
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/cavium/ocx.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.9.0.rc0.21.g7777322