Re: [PATCH v7 4/4] perf/smmuv3: Enable HiSilicon Erratum 162001800 quirk

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 08:32:41 EST


On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:17:53PM +0000, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
> HiSilicon erratum 162001800 describes the limitation of
> SMMUv3 PMCG implementation on HiSilicon Hip08 platforms.
>
> On these platforms, the PMCG event counter registers
> (SMMU_PMCG_EVCNTRn) are read only and as a result it
> is not possible to set the initial counter period value
> on event monitor start.
>
> To work around this, the current value of the counter
> is read and used for delta calculations. OEM information
> from ACPI header is used to identify the affected hardware
> platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shameer Kolothum <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/arm64/iort.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-
> drivers/perf/arm_smmuv3_pmu.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> include/linux/acpi_iort.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

I need an Ack from Lorenzo for the IORT parts of this patch.

Will