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

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Message-ID: <cafdb160-3072-389b-8c31-93f09eff84a8@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Mar 2018 11:05:17 -0500
From:   William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
To:     John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>, ganapatrao.kulkarni@...ium.com
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
        will.deacon@....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 03/02/2018 03:24 AM, John Garry wrote:
> On 27/02/2018 09:50, Jiri Olsa wrote:
>> 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:
>>
> 
> Hi William, Ganapatrao,
> 
> Can you check the modifications to the ARM64 JSONs you originally submitted in the patchset please?> 
> If they are not checked, I'll have to see if the maintainers will accept without your review. If not, I'll have to drop them.

Hi John,

I will take a look at the patches this weekend and give feedback beginning of next week. -Will

> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
>> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
>>
>> thanks,
>> jirka
>>
>> .
>>
> 
>