linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] perf: Add APM X-Gene SoC Performance Monitoring Unit driver

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Message-ID: <20160720101553.GA20508@arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2016 11:15:53 +0100
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Duc Dang <dhdang@....com>
Cc:	Tai Tri Nguyen <ttnguyen@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Devicetree List <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	patches <patches@....com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] perf: Add APM X-Gene SoC Performance Monitoring
 Unit driver

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 01:22:09PM -0700, Duc Dang wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Duc Dang <dhdang@....com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Tai Tri Nguyen <ttnguyen@....com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 6:16 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Tai Nguyen wrote:
> >> >> In addition to the X-Gene ARM CPU performance monitoring unit (PMU), there
> >> >> are PMU for the SoC system devices such as L3 cache(s), I/O bridge(s),
> >> >> memory controller bridges and memory. These PMU devices are loosely
> >> >> architected to follow the same model as the PMU for ARM cores.
> >> >
> >> > You might want to add commit messages to patches 1,2 and 4, but then you
> >> > can route this via the arm-soc tree.
> >> >
> >> > Will
> >>
> >> I will add the commit messages to these patches 1, 2 and 4 and rout
> >> this via arm-soc tree.
> >> CC: Duc (dhdang@....com)
> >
> > I will pull patch 1, 2 and 4 into xgene-next tree and send pull
> > request to Arnd and Olof.
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> Do you plan to merge this series (Tai posted v10) into 4.8 or you want
> to wait until 4.9? Please let know so that I can plan my pull request
> to Arnd/Olof accordingly to include patch 1, 2, and 4.

I was hoping that the whole series would go via arm-soc. Mark reviewed
the PMU driver code, so that should be sufficient.

Will