linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU counters

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Date:   Tue, 8 Aug 2017 14:25:10 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@...iumnetworks.com>,
        David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU
 counters

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 04:12:33PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 03:15:15PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:08:56AM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > > OK. As fixing the firmware will take quite some time I'll go for the memory
> > > controller driver that starts EDAC / PMU depending on their CONFIG_.
> > > 
> > > What would be the proper location for the multiplexer?
> > > drivers/soc/cavium or drivers/misc?
> > 
> > Uff, no idea. Greg? You're the special drivers guy. :-)
> 
> Start out in misc/ and let's see the code to determine if it should be
> moved elsewhere.

Jan, are you ok making this change, or are you waiting for anything else
from us? (Mark and I are just going through the pending PMU patches and
we're not clear on the status of this one).

Cheers,

Will