Re: [PATCH V2] KVM: arm64: perf: Replace '0xf' instances with ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_IMP_DEF

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Wed Aug 11 2021 - 05:56:08 EST


On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 04:27:06 +0100,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ID_AA64DFR0_PMUVER_IMP_DEF which indicate implementation defined PMU, never
> actually gets used although there are '0xf' instances scattered all around.
> Just do the macro replacement to improve readability.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-perf-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

For some reason I don't understand, b4 doesn't want to cherry-pick
this patch from the list. I've applied it manually to
kvm-arm64/misc-5.15.

Thanks,

M.

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