linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf: arm: Make PMUv3 driver available for aarch32

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Message-ID: <86fsbgyutf.wl-maz@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:40:28 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Zaid Al-Bassam <zalbassam@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jesus Sanchez-Palencia <jesussanp@...gle.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, kvmarm@...ts.linux.dev,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] perf: arm: Make PMUv3 driver available for aarch32

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:44:36 +0000,
Zaid Al-Bassam <zalbassam@...gle.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently, PMUv3 driver is only available for ARMv8 aarch64
> platforms, ARMv8 running in aarch32 mode dont have access to
> the driver. This is, especially, a problem for ARMv8 platforms
> that only have aarch32 support, like the Cortex-A32.

FWIW, I've pushed out my own interpretation of this series to [1],
including the changes I suggested. The results seems to correctly work
in a 32bit guest on a 64bit host, which is what I (used to) care
about.

Feel free to pick it up.

	M.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=arm/pmuv3

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