Re: [PATCH 01/13] drm/msm: Remove obsolete perf infrastructure

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 03:25:23PM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> Outside of a3xx, this was never really used.  And it low-key gets in the
> way of the new perfcntr support (or at least it is confusing to have two
> things called "perf").  So lets remove it.
> 
> This drops the "perf" debugfs file.  But these days, nvtop is a better
> option.  (Plus perfetto for newer gens.)

Would it be possible to resurrect "perf" later? It was really useful.

Other than that,

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/Makefile          |   1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a2xx_gpu.c |   7 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a3xx_gpu.c |  16 --
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/a4xx_gpu.c |   3 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_debugfs.c     |   6 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.c         |   1 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_drv.h         |   5 -
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c         | 107 ------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.h         |  31 ----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_perf.c        | 235 --------------------------
>  10 files changed, 412 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_perf.c
> 

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With best wishes
Dmitry