linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] perf events patches for improved ARM64 support

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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:50:28 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
Cc:     ak@...ux.intel.com, peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        acme@...nel.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
        namhyung@...nel.org, wcohen@...hat.com, will.deacon@....com,
        ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com, linuxarm@...wei.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        zhangshaokun@...ilicon.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] perf events patches for improved ARM64 support

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:05:21AM +0800, John Garry wrote:
> This patchset adds support for some perf events features,
> targeted at ARM64, implemented in a generic fashion.
> 
> The two main features are as follows:
> - support for arch/vendor/platform pmu events directory structure
>    - to support this, topic subdirectory support needs to be dropped
> - support for parsing standard architecture pmu events
> 
> On the back of these, the Cavium ThunderX2, ARM Cortex-A53,
> and HiSilicon hip08 JSONs are relocated/added/updated.
> 
> In addition, there is a patch to drop mutli-mapfile.csv support and
> also a bugfix in jevents.c for an error code value.
> 
> Differences to v1:
> - Address coding issues from Jiri Olsa in adding arch std event
>    support (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/501)
> - add patch to drop topic subdirectory support
> - add patch for bug fix in json_events() 
> - add review tags from Jiri Olsa

can't tell if those json file changes are ok, but for all the code changes:

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>

thanks,
jirka