Re: [RFC PATCH v9 0/7] Cavium ARM64 uncore PMU support
From: Jan Glauber
Date: Thu Aug 31 2017 - 07:38:29 EST
So what about the general idea with the wrapper, does this look sane?
Any objections to that?
thanks,
Jan
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 03:12:31PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> I'm posting this as RFC following this discussion:
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=150099526923838&w=2
>
> I've implemented the wrapper for the PCI devices and put it under
> drivers/soc/cavium which I found more appropriate than drivers/misc.
>
> I was not able to find a way to build the EDAC driver and the PMU driver
> with all combinations (builtin and module) so I limited the build options
> to module only. The problem is that the select from EDAC or PMU
> sets the wrappers build type to whatever EDAC or PMU choose.
> But all parts must be either built-in or modules, having the wrapper
> builtin and calling into module code will not work. If there is a better
> solution please let me know.
>
> The PMU code is the same as in v8.
>
> Add support for various PMU counters found on the Cavium ThunderX and
> OcteonTx SoC.
>
> The PMU driver provides common "uncore" functions to avoid code duplication
> and support adding more device PMUs (like L2 cache) in the future.
>
> Changes to v8:
> - Wrapper for PCI devices
>
> Jan Glauber (7):
> edac: thunderx: Remove suspend/resume support
> edac,soc: thunderx: Add wrapper for EDAC LMC PCI device
> edac,soc: thunderx: Add wrapper for EDAC OCX PCI device
> perf: export perf_event_update_userpage()
> perf: cavium: Support memory controller PMU counters
> perf: cavium: Support transmit-link PMU counters
> perf: cavium: Add Documentation
>
> Documentation/perf/cavium-pmu.txt | 75 +++++
> drivers/edac/Kconfig | 3 +
> drivers/edac/thunderx_edac.c | 92 +-----
> drivers/perf/Kconfig | 15 +
> drivers/perf/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/perf/cavium_pmu.c | 680 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/soc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/soc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/soc/cavium/Kconfig | 14 +
> drivers/soc/cavium/Makefile | 2 +
> drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_lmc.c | 53 +++
> drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_ocx.c | 49 +++
> include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 1 +
> include/linux/soc/cavium/lmc.h | 12 +
> include/linux/soc/cavium/ocx.h | 12 +
> kernel/events/core.c | 1 +
> 16 files changed, 933 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/perf/cavium-pmu.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/perf/cavium_pmu.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_lmc.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/soc/cavium/cavium_ocx.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/cavium/lmc.h
> create mode 100644 include/linux/soc/cavium/ocx.h
>
> --
> 2.9.0.rc0.21.g7777322