Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arm64/perf: Rename Cortex A57 events

[Will Deacon]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 07:40:37PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > The implemented Cortex A57 events are not A57 specific.
> > They are recommended by ARM and can be found on other
> > ARMv8 SOCs like Cavium ThunderX too. Therefore move
> > these events to the common PMUv3 table.
> 
> I can't find anything in the architecture that suggests these event
> numbers are necessarily portable between implementations. Am I missing
> something?

Aha, I just noticed appendix K3.1 (silly me for missing it...).

Lemme check whether or not that mandates that those encodings can't be
used for wildly different things.

Will