[RFC 0/3] arm64: SPE ACPI enablement

From: Jeremy Linton
Date: Fri Feb 08 2019 - 19:47:35 EST


This patch series enables the Arm Statistical
Profiling Extension (SPE) on ACPI platforms.

This is possible because ACPI 6.3 uses a previously
reserved field in the MADT to store the SPE interrupt
number, similarly to how the normal PMU is
described. If a consistent valid interrupt exists
across all the cores in the system, a platform
device is registered. That then triggers the SPE module,
which runs as normal.

Jeremy Linton (3):
ACPICA: ACPI 6.3: Add MADT/GICC/SPE extension.
arm_pmu: acpi: spe: Add initial MADT/SPE probing
perf: arm_spe: Enable ACPI/Platform automatic module loading

arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 4 +++
drivers/perf/arm_pmu_acpi.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c | 11 ++++--
include/acpi/actbl2.h | 5 +--
4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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