linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 05/11] arm-cci PMU: Delay counter writes to pmu

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Message-ID: <5693F092.3080209@arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:12:34 +0000
From:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arm@...nel.org, punit.agrawal@....com, peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/11] arm-cci PMU: Delay counter writes to pmu_enable

On 11/01/16 11:24, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:08:27AM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>> On 11/01/16 10:46, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:59:13AM +0000, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>>>> On 04/01/16 19:24, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> Hence, didn't want to change it for CCI. We could use the batching
>> logic, if decide to do so. I can go ahead with that if there are no
>> other side effects with that.
>
> We'll lose events regardless as our RMW sequence will race against the
> counters. Batching will make that window slightly larger, but other than
> that I don't see a problem.

OK, will do that.

Cheers
Suzuki