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Message-ID: <20231209061723.GC2116834@leoy-yangtze.lan>
Date:   Sat, 9 Dec 2023 14:17:23 +0800
From:   Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
To:     kan.liang@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     acme@...nel.org, irogers@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, namhyung@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org,
        adrian.hunter@...el.com, john.g.garry@...cle.com, will@...nel.org,
        james.clark@....com, mike.leach@...aro.org,
        yuhaixin.yhx@...ux.alibaba.com, renyu.zj@...ux.alibaba.com,
        tmricht@...ux.ibm.com, ravi.bangoria@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] perf mem: Clean up perf_mem_event__supported()

On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 11:23:37AM -0800, kan.liang@...ux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> For some ARCHs, e.g., ARM and AMD, to get the availability of the
> mem-events, perf checks the existence of a specific PMU. For the other
> ARCHs, e.g., Intel and Power, perf has to check the existence of some
> specific events.
> 
> The current perf only iterates the mem-events-supported PMUs. It's not
> required to check the existence of a specific PMU anymore.

With this change, both Arm and AMD archs have no chance to detect if the
hardware (or the device driver) is supported and the tool will always
take the memory events are exited on the system, right?

Thanks,
Leo

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