linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/4] drivers/nvdimm: Add perf interface to expose nvdimm performance stats

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Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 13:47:15 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     kajoljain <kjain@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     mpe@...erman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, santosh@...six.org,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com, vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, ira.weiny@...el.com,
        atrajeev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] drivers/nvdimm: Add perf interface to expose nvdimm
 performance stats

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 05:56:14PM +0530, kajoljain wrote:

> But yes the current read/add/del functions are not adding value. We
> could  add an arch/platform specific function which could handle the
> capturing of the counter data and do the rest of the operation here,
> is this approach better?

Right; have your register_nvdimm_pmu() set pmu->{add,del,read} to
nd_pmu->{add,del,read} directly, don't bother with these intermediates.
Also you can WARN_ON_ONCE() if any of them are NULL and fail
registration at that point.